Word: grinding
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Mondale had been endorsed by every major union except the Teamsters, who opted for Reagan. After stumbling badly in the early primaries, Mondale relied on union money and muscle to grind down Gary Hart in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan. "Without labor, we would not have been the nominee," admits one Mondale strategist...
Reagan was back at the White House by nightfall Thursday. His campaign schedule is no grind. On the road only two or three days a week, he tries to avoid addressing complicated issues or difficult audiences. His strategists prefer a succession of snapshots: Reagan amid a lift-off of 5,000 balloons in Waterbury last week, Reagan surrounded by smiling workers during a planned visit to an Akron steel plant this week. The idea is simple: just keep the jaunty President walking on the sunny side of the street...
...strange machinery of Soviet public relations continues to grind out communications about dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov. In West Germany the mass-circulation daily Bild last week published a claim by Moscow-based Journalist Victor Louis, a favorite KGB conduit for slipping information to the West, that Sakharov, 63, had been released from a hospital in his exile home of Gorky. The scientist, he said, has resumed his private life by joining his wife in their apartment, and "is healthy again." The day after the Louis report appeared, Western journalists learned that the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics...
...most effective majority leader since Lyndon Johnson. With a polemical convention speech last week, he set out to prove that he had the requisite "fire in the belly" to run for national office and stir crowds. He is quitting the Senate this year to get away from the Washington grind and, as he put it, "reestablish a more distant and civilian perspective." Dole hopes to succeed Baker as majority leader. Their candidacies in 1988 could test whether an effective legislator can also be a popular vote getter...
...grounds of an abandoned infantry academy. Deng got a job fitting parts together at a nearby tractor factory. In his spare time he tended his vegetable garden, raised chickens and read books on Marx, Lenin and Chinese history. He became popular with his neighbors, who would drop by to grind flour and make rice wine with him. Deng returned to Peking in 1973 after the death of his rival, Lin Biao, and to full power in 1977. Evidently he retains warm feelings for Jiangxi. His days there, says Mao Mao, helped him "comprehend the actual social conditions of the people...