Word: handing
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...other hand, Bruce Cook, Democratic state central committeeman for St. Clair County, recalls a coal miner telling him that "once a guy makes $30,000 a year, he buys a riding lawn mower and votes Republican." These voters, many of them Reagan Democrats, are conservative on social issues. Cook admits that Dukakis' veto of a compulsory Pledge of Allegiance to the flag is not going to help. But he counters by asserting, "Dan Quayle really hurts Bush with these people. They are macho, patriotic people who are working really hard to send their kids to college," qualities they...
Lennon, on the other hand, was too smart, self-deprecating and evasive to be an easy target for ridicule. Well into his book, Goldman drops a small complaint about the difficulties he had in getting at the truth of his subject: "Interview a score of people who interacted strongly with Lennon and you will get a score of Lennons, each one a man highly congenial to your source." This problem with evidence suggests why Goldman wrote The Lives, rather than The Life, in his title. The complications do not end here. Those eyewitnesses to facets of Lennon's life...
...another handicap. A nephew of the late Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, he led military crackdowns against civilian protesters in the former Canal Zone in the 1960s. Called home from Israel by Noriega last year to help repress demonstrations, he did so with what some considered an overly strong hand. Still, if Herrera could topple Noriega and keep the military out of politics while a democratic government emerged, that would more than satisfy U.S. interests. It might also be something of a miracle...
...power in 1980, began to founder in the summer of 1987, when the President, coming to the end of his seven-year term, attempted to pass his office to a loyal supporter and fellow general, Roh, without a direct election. On June 10, 1987, while Chun and Roh stood hand in hand in Seoul's Chamshil Gymnasium, accepting the applause of D.J.P. supporters at a sham convention to nominate the party's presidential candidate for the bogus election that would follow, antiregime students planned demonstrations that were to shake the country for the next two weeks...
...political hand has been strengthened immeasurably by his country's seemingly unstoppable economy, which last year was the fastest growing in the world. South Korea's gross national product in 1987 topped $119 billion, and has risen at the staggering average annual rate of 8.8% for the past two decades. The country financed its fast expansion by running up a foreign debt that reached $47 billion by 1986. But in that same year South Korea registered a small current-account trade surplus, the first in its history, and last year expanded it to $7.7 billion. That overage has helped enable...