Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time Americans pick a new President on Nov. 8 they will have invested nearly half a billion dollars in a random and chaotic process. They will have absorbed encyclopedic detail on such pop issues as the "wimp factor," and probably given more of the public's airwaves to this political marathon than to any other story of our age. Then a lot of them will lose interest until the Inauguration...
...spoilsmen and political operatives. Campaigns have become an industry of moneygrubbers and pitchmen, only a few of whom should be allowed into power. The nation and Ronald Reagan might have been better off had 1980 Campaign Director Bill Casey, a renowned Wall Street buccaneer, been left there rather than given the CIA as spoils. Jimmy Carter's sad history might have been different had he kept his campaign strategist Hamilton Jordan out of the White House loop. And John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's campaign head and later Attorney General, was such a misfit in power that he ended...
...lawyers familiar with the case said it was unlikely the former presidential aide would be given a prison term at his sentencing, which was set for March 25 by U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Flannery...
...Based on information previously given to me, I have no reason to believe that there is any truth to the allegation in regard to the improper furnishing of information to Noriega," Sen. David Boren (D-Okla), said...
...their efforts, the Cleary brothers were given a parade through Cambridge in their honor the day after the victory...