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...brass ring was beyond his reach. Dukakis even kidded Jackson Friday night during their first one-on-one debate. When a questioner asked about Jackson's interest in the vice-presidential nomination, Dukakis ostentatiously stage-whispered, "Are you interested? Talk to me later." Jackson responded with a playful elbow jab...
...Dartmouth's] style of play is pretty physical," Melrose said. "With that comes the extra punch and the extra jab. In the second period, they were doing everything we were. But the ref kept giving us the penalty...
...time to come." That being so, Kohl and Honecker agreed to meet again in East Germany, though no date was set. West German Industrialist Otto Wolff von Amerongen may have best summed up the mood when he met the East German leader in Cologne. Alluding to Honecker's banquet jab, he said, "As long as the German people are not on fire or under water, we may be O.K." Throughout a trip filled with tension, it was one of the few lines that brought a smile to Honecker's lips...
...must beat in Iowa. Like Carter, he deadpanned, he discusses issues with his children. Babbitt quoted his nine-year-old son as saying, "Dad, you've really got to do something about colorization of classic films." The father had to confess that Gephardt beat him to it -- a jab at his rival's habit of riding trendy issues...
...candidacy in four states in one day, first at a renovated mill in New Hampshire. He then drove home to Boston to repeat the announcement on snow-Boston Common, before continuing to Atlanta and Des Moines. In Boston, pointing to Massachusetts' much touted economic revival, Dukakis took a jab at Candidate Gary Hart's "new ideas" campaign: "Ask more than whether we have new ideas. Ask whether we have already made new ideas work...