Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reese has been watching the race carefully. He is a Democrat, saying that "all Dukakis has to do to win my vote is to stay alive." But Reese says a Dukakis victory will be an uphill climb. Dukakis is at a disadvantage, Reese says, because the Republicans have a hold on the West and Mountain states. For Dukakis to win, Reese says, he must have a better campagin organization than Vice President George Bush, benefit from a Bush gaffe or get across to the voters the idea that Dan Quayle is unqualified to be vice president...
...Dukakis campaign asserted at the time that Jackson could not be reached, but Hatcher counters that The secret service is able to get hold of any presidential candidate at any time. Hatcher adds, however, that the mistake was due to the relative inexperience of the Dukakis organization rather than some "ulterior or sinister motive...
...comparatively terse Venetian scene: "In the churning wake of a motorboat from one of the luxury hotels, the gondola bobbed with graceful disequilibrium. The tall, thin, handsome man sitting in the gondola gripped the sides of the small wooden craft and said to his seven-year-old daughter, 'Hold on.' He thought, Gondolas are atavistic." Never mind that adjectives here are pulling more weight than they ought to bear. The real problem is the terminal apercu. Nothing that follows in this brief, intermittently charming story about a man and his daughter quite obliterates an annoying question: How, exactly, are gondolas...
Secondary: Cornell QBs did not hold a passing fair last Saturday. But it is unclear what--the weather or the Crimson secondary--did more to shut down the Red attack. Safety Jim Smith pulled down his second interception of the year last week. But injuries (adjuster Bobby Frame, out last week, is likely to see action this week) have hurt this bunch...
While on a mission, Mormons go door-to-door, teaching about the LDS Church. They also talk with people in the streets and hold some public meetings. Missionaries are usually based at existing Mormon churches, and Tolk says that he would also talk to interested people who had been referred to the church by friends. "We present what the teachings of the church are and ask people to read the Book of Mormon," he says...