Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still a political person," he asserts. "I played at the White House a year ago and I got a standing ovation. I invited the President to jump onstage to see what a standing ovation looked like...
...results. Regan's mandate was a good deal less than indicated by his 489 electoral votes or by Wall Street's thunderous vote of approval the next day (79 million shares traded, the second busiest day in the New York Stock Exchange's history, and a jump of nearly 16 points in the Dow-Jones average). His victory was surely not so much an endorsement of his philosophy as an overwhelming rejection of Jimmy Carter, a President who could not convince the nation that he mastered his job. Overseas, he could never seem to chart a consistent...
...chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee is so powerful that the last man who held it, Wilbur Mills, was able to jump into the Washington Tidal Basin with Stripper Fanne Foxe and still win reelection. But his successor, Al Ullman of Oregon, did something even worse in the eyes of many constituents: he proposed a national value-added tax, which to many .voters in his district sounded suspiciously like the state sales tax that they had repeatedly rejected in referendums. In addition, while Ullman clambered up the rungs of power on Capitol Hill, he visited his home folks...
...Kramer vs. Kramer he made Splitsville an interesting place to spend marriage. His newest tale concerns the mid-life-style of Steve Robbins, a child of The Bronx circa 1944. Steve grows up indifferent to everything but basketbal played in a schoolyard. But his parents do not include jump shots as a requisite of upward mobility, and the dutiful son soon drifts off court to City College, Equipped with a business degree and a modicum of ambition, he sets out for "the most dazzling job in the world"-as an advertising man. Madison Avenue finds him the least dazzling candidate...
...This place has been around for 340 years and it's unrealistic to think the administration will just jump on the bandwagon," Chassin said, adding, "At least this way they'll consider it. It's the only effective way to change. You can barricade University Hall but that doesn't change attitudes...