Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told by a former kgb guard about the plot, but Nikita initially dismissed the story as nonsense. As the days slipped by and the intrigue grew, the senior Khrushchev realized that his son was right. But it was too late. After more than a decade as one of the globe's two most powerful leaders, Khrushchev became a nonperson overnight. He died...
...alone. Last week the trade weekly Editor & Publisher reported a surge, from 32% in 1984 to 55% this year, in the proportion of papers that had either decided not to endorse a candidate or remained undecided. Several that did endorse, including the New York Times and Dukakis' hometown Boston Globe, voiced uneasiness about both men. And in a striking setback for Dukakis, the liberal Washington Post, which had endorsed every Democratic candidate for President starting with George McGovern in 1972, withheld its support from both contenders...
...George Bush has run "irrelevantly, like someone seeking to be Grand Inquisitor" and Michael Dukakis has run "mechanically, like a candidate for Plant Superintendent." What tipped the scales to Dukakis for the Times was the budget deficit and Bush's plan to cut the capital-gains tax; for the Globe, it was Dan Quayle...
...said a Boston Herald poll had opponents of the referendum ahead by 9 percent, so "we're not all that concerned about [the Globe's] poll...
Garv R. Orren, associate professor of publicpolicy at the Kennedy School and Peter H. Lemieux,lecturer of Political Science at M.I.T., conductedthe poll published in the Globe...