Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radiation, was working as designed. But I had also learned in my training flights how to slip past MiGs by keeping a close eye on the EMV, the electromagnetic visibility gauge that measures the F-19's "stealthiness." As long as I flew at an altitude below 500 ft., kept the engines throttled back and refrained from opening the bomb- bay doors, the meter's red bar stayed reassuringly low, signaling that I was all but invisible...
...process soon spun out of control. Because Bush had kept everything to himself, no one had thought of how to present Quayle to the press. Expecting the choice to be Dole, Bush's senior staff enlisted the veteran Reagan adviser Stu Spencer to keep Dole under control. But Spencer proved too domineering for Quayle. He called him Danny and treated him like a college freshman. At Quayle's first press conference, the Bush staff was relieved at his ability to handle the issue of Paula Parkinson, the onetime Playboy model who very briefly shared a Florida vacation house with Quayle...
...Jeffords' acceptance of money from groups he helped. Eleven days before accepting $5,000 from a Teamsters PAC in 1987, Jeffords asked Attorney General Edwin Meese not to put the racket-ridden union under federal trusteeship. (Meese did so anyway.) A former state legislator and attorney general, Jeffords kept intact his record of never having lost a statewide election...
Still, the noise generated by these contentious nonissues may have kept voters from focusing on Michael Dukakis' talking points. Of the 40% who told NBC/Wall Street Journal pollsters the deficit should be the top priority of the next President, 57% went for Bush, even though he virtually ignored the deficit in his campaign and promised not to raise taxes. Of the 39% of voters who think a tax increase will be necessary to reduce the budget deficit, 42% voted for Bush anyway...
...center. They called for greater discipline in the schools. Both wanted to get tough on crime. Both used their church network while trying to reach beyond it. Robertson presented himself as a corporate executive and university president; Jackson presented himself as a diplomat-negotiator who had brought back hostages, kept factories and farms from closing, and transcended racial divisions. Robertson gave us a right-wing populism that had shed the overt racism of George Wallace's campaigns. Jackson gave us a left-wing populism that had gone beyond the black base of his 1984 effort...