Word: heir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, it wasn't easy for me to take DuPont seriously. It didn't seem that a rich heir named Pierre, with tortoise-rim glasses and preppy clothes, would ooze with compassion for the poor. After all, this was a man who, during the Republican primaries, trumpeted a public school voucher system--a way to move the most motivated students to better schools, leaving the more academically needy students behind and spurring a further decline in the quality of inner-city education...
...officials have donned red-white-and- blue neckties printed with PUSH FOR BUSH. After the neckties were distributed at a Cabinet meeting, the President called upon his top officers to become surrogate speakers for Bush. Nearly every presidential trip and ceremony has been turned into a showcase for the heir apparent...
...Daley Thompson has been the natural heir to Jim Thorpe, she would be the Seoul beneficiary of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Joyner-Kersee and Thompson, the two-time Olympic decathlon champion, puffing for three, embody all the basic wonders of the Games and encompass almost every grade of emotion. One is just arriving at a place the other has been straining to maintain. She's the blur; he's the mist. They have a "special understanding," as he likes to put it, and a few things...
...acceptance speech that was the equal of Michael Dukakis' oratorical triumph in Atlanta. In a strong, I'm-the-guy-in-charge-now voice, Bush fused masterful metaphors and political put-downs with his campaign themes of family, freedom and the future. He adroitly portrayed himself as both the heir to Reaganism and his own man, ready to take his seat at the big desk in the Oval Office. Bush declared, "This election -- what it all comes down to, after all the shouting and cheers, is the man at the desk. And who should sit at that desk? My friends...
...boats of that quality, prices are rising at least 10% annually. At the first-ever auction of antique powerboats, which took place in May in Newport, R.I., a 33-ft. Baby Gar, once owned by Chewing Gum Heir P.K. Wrigley, fetched a bid of $95,000; the current owner, Milton Merle, was asking $140,000 and declined the offer. "It's a one-of-a-kind collectible," declared Merle, a New York marketing consultant who has amassed a fleet of seven vintage runabouts...