Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early bird in presidential campaigns catches the worm. So Dukakis and Bush should remember: All's fair in love and war and to the victor goes the spoils...
...Lance Writer Martha Thomas sold an article to the paper's Sunday magazine telling the inside story of a rape trial. Thomas interviewed the defense lawyer on condition that her name not appear. But Star Tribune editors insisted that, because the trial was open to the public, it was fair to name names. Late last week the newspaper pulled all 625,000 copies of its Sunday magazine rather than risk litigation. Considering Cohen's victory, that seemed a prudent move...
...that smashes headlong into Minneapolis' quirky turn-of-the-century Egyptian Building, nearly obliterating a carved bas-relief frieze. But aesthetics is not the biggest problem. Skywalks are, in most places most of the time, pseudo-sensible amenities. They are artifacts of an earlier, 1964 World's Fair era, when convenience -- insulation from nature and from the urban hurly-burly -- was the great American goal, neurotically pursued. Skywalks pull pedestrians off the streets year round, rain or shine, hot or cold. Inside their hermetic world, urban dwellers are deprived of much of the richness of the city. "Cities are places...
...ideas behind it. And after a decade of Republican hypocrisy -- especially after what happened to Walter Mondale's small experiment in straight talk four years ago -- the Democrats may be entitled to one hypocritical victory of their own. But the next one they should try to win fair and square...
...dollar spent by Senator Bentsen in Texas, whether for the Senate or the vice presidential campaign, is going to directly and immediately benefit both," said Olsten. "It just isn't fair...