Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stronger grip on the nomination than Reagan did at this stage in 1980. "This is something historic," said Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater. "There will never be another regional primary with this sort of conclusive impact." Bush began to sound credible Tuesday night when he told supporters in Houston, "I'm now convinced I will be the President of the United States...
...been 20 years since the party that won Texas lost the overall election, so the Democrats could pick San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros in an effort to give Bush a battle in his own front yard. But he doesn't come from Dallas or Houston, and besides, Dukakis has already demonstrated that he can win the Hispanic vote in the South without a Hispanic to translate...
...Columbia. Three brown phones and three white ones are forever ringing in Atwater's room at the Radisson. Scanning the Charlotte Observer, he tells New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, "I want you to come down to Houston. Things start happening in the last ten days." After hanging up, Atwater, in his rat-a-tat South Carolina accent, explains, "We have blended the national campaign with the state campaign here...
...Hearn to murder his wife Sandra for $10,000. Both were convicted of the crime. But Sandra Black's mother and 18-year-old son also blamed Soldier of Fortune and filed a $22.5 million negligence suit against the combative, Rambo-lining magazine. Last week a federal jury in Houston ordered the magazine to pay $9.4 million in damages. "We're sending out a message to other publishers that ads placed in a certain context can be very dangerous," said the jury's foreman. The - magazine will appeal, arguing that free speech would be inhibited if it had to scrutinize...
...professional nature of nurses more precisely and assign other people to positions where a nurse's professional and scientific background is not essential," says Dr. David Skinner, president of New York Hospital. It does not take a nursing degree, for example, to deliver a pill to a patient. Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital sometimes uses medication technicians, not R.N.s, to dispense drugs to patients after nurses have verified the dose. Says Connie Curran, vice president for health-care management and patient services at the American Hospital Association (AHA) in Chicago: "Hospitals that are using registered nurses to answer telephones...