Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...translators -- for a 90-minute session, the longest of their three meetings in as many weeks. Jackson complains about the inequities of the delegate- selection system and argues for a tougher stand against South Africa's racial policies. Dukakis listens sympathetically. Looming over the meeting is a too- hot topic that remains pretty much unspoken: whether Dukakis should offer Jackson the second spot on the ticket (which he won't) and what will happen when he doesn't. Down in the lobby, Mark Gearan, a Dukakis spokesman, entertains drowsy reporters with a piano rendition of Getting to Know You from...
...with depressions that may be filled with lower-density fluid that forms the equivalent of oceans. There may even be a bizarre kind of rain: showers of iron particles that sprinkle down on the core. And all of this takes place in a region whose temperature is perhaps as hot as the surface...
...both the racing and the real estate commissions. Says Lynch, who is expanding his staff from twelve to 35: "If I had known as a reporter what I learned my first three days here, I could have won five Pulitzer Prizes." Louisiana residents are encouraged to use a complaint hot line to phone in tips about waste or fraud in government -- and so far, hundreds have called...
Almost everything the company produces these days seems to fly out of showrooms. The latest Ford model is a hot two- door hatchback called the Probe, which was designed and developed in a joint project with Mazda. -- Lee Iacocca sounds off in his second book, Talking Straight. -- A mess of misleading economic indicators fluctuate wildly and go through repeated revisions...
...Moscow summit. The main event, of course, was the face-to-face meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Gorbachev. The most fascinating sideshow: Raisa and Nancy playing a catty game of one-upmanship. But there was more -- much more. Religion in the Soviet Union was suddenly a hot topic for TV reporters, as were Soviet rock music and the effect of glasnost on the Soviet press. There were tours of the Moscow subway, a visit to the first Miss Moscow beauty pageant and an interview with artists who, in honor of the summit, made plaster casts of people shaking...