Word: jims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also sharpening their public image record. Illinois Sen. Paul Simon is running on a "straight-arrow" image by publishing all of his financial statements, and claiming that he will not give a speech that he has not written or at least revised himself, said Simon's Press Secretary Jim Killpatrick...
...random poll of 15,000 people across the nation, conducted earlier this month, Dukakis recieved a 22 percent favorability rating. Fourteen percent had favorered Biden, said Jim D. Murphy, the head of Cambridge Reports, a national public opinion research center that did the poll for a local television station...
...moments, she was overcome with emotion and could not speak. Her husband, Jim, who stood beside her at the podium, urged her to "take a minute, take a minute" to compose herself before continuing her statement...
...Starring Lots of Actors," the opening credits of this Son of Kentucky Fried Movie announce. Also five directors (including Joe Dante and John Landis) and two TV-bred writers (Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland) itching to bring skitcom to the big screen. Some episodes offer social satire, such as one starring Griffin Dunne as an impish obstetrician who insists that his painted fist is a woman's newborn baby ("Wanna breast-feed him?"). But most find plenty of fun at show biz's expense. Movies: Amazon Women on the Moon, a parody of the already camp Zsa Zsa Gabor epic...
This is the attitude of Bill Toomey, the Olympic decathlon champion of 1968, a former World's Greatest Athlete in that long American line from Jim Thorpe to Bruce Jenner, through Bob Mathias and Rafer Johnson. But "now the decathlon is virtually made in Europe," he says. "I keep hoping there is somebody out there who could at least compete with Daley Thompson." Toomey is not inconsolable though. He knows that track, in particular, has been a missionary sport, and that many foreign stars have American universities in their backgrounds...