Word: jam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale is in this jam because he has never been able to separate himself from the cliche his critics have created about him--the special interests mongerer. He was created as an embodiment of the party platform; everybody has a plank, and everybody gets what he wants. Mondale believes that he can win the election by adding up minority groups and pandering ad nauseam to women's groups. It won him a party nomination, but he earned it with only percent of the primary vote--compared to 36 percent for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.)--which makes...
...Center, a city-owned warehouse and heliport in downtown Los Angeles. Once the Games begin, representatives of all the law-enforcement agencies involved will staff the Pentagon-designed nerve center round the clock. Five large screens will project an array of security information, like the size of a traffic jam or the location of a hostage incident. Says Commander William Rathburn of the Los Angeles police department (L.A.P.D.), who will oversee the operation: " A civilian security coordination effort of this magnitude has never before been undertaken...
...with Burt to prepare a memo from the White House in early March 1982 that ordered the various agencies to close ranks behind a START proposal by May 1. The purpose of the deadline, remarked McFarlane, was to set off "an explosive charge that will blast apart the log jam in the bureaucracy...
...rushed into the middle of the snarled intersection. Ignoring honks, raised fists and remarks far ruder than her own, she demanded that this car back up, that one turn right. One driver recognized her and yelled, "You tell 'em, Gerri!" Slowly the traffic jam cleared. The Congresswoman from Queens was back on schedule, racing to a Knights of Columbus testimonial dinner...
...team's four starting pitchers and its ace reliever also wore mortarboards June 9, 1983. It looked like this year's squad was in a jam. It wasn...