Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis has chosen to run from Bush's attacks, not fight back. In the second presidential debate, Dukakis claimed "it's not labels" that are important, but issues. He's right. He should have shot back with numerous issues on which Bush has been nowhere near the mainstream...
Past winners include projects that fight teenage pregnancy, promote adoption and curb pollution, among others...
JOSEPH KENNEDY--As the heir to what is regarded as the first family of Massachusetts politics, the freshman Congressman won a tough primary fight in 1986, beating out a crowded field of candidates in a bitter campaign where the inexperienced Kennedy was generally considered a political lightweight. Shortly after the election, the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics sponsored a week-long seminar for incoming congressmen. Kennedy was described by participants as inattentive, impatient and flippant. After skipping a speech by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Voloker to attend a Boston Celtics Game, Kennedy told the press that "I didn...
...when two inebriated fans go at it, the baseball-viewing throng becomes a fight crowd...
...State George Shultz. "The peace epidemic" is what Harvard foreign policy expert Stanley Hoffmann calls it. The Joint Chiefs of Staff came over to the White House the other day to meet with Reagan and reported their services in excellent readiness but with an unprecedented lack of battles to fight. Peace is threatening in Iran-Iraq, Kampuchea, Afghanistan, southern Africa and even Central America...