Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Former NBC News correspondent Marvin Kalb, director of the Barone Center, is convinced that politicians cannot be truly successful without being open to the press. But his experience as a reporter forces him to admit that they can avoid the press with little damage. "The Bush campaign has kept its distance from the press," he says. "The Dukakis camp started out maintaining a constant dialogue, but found out there wasn't much mileage...
...depend on factors of character and personality to predict presidential performance. As they have through much of the campaign, both Bush and Dukakis peppered the debate with carefully chosen code words designed to camouflage their vulnerabilities. Bush, whose privileged background is alien to the life experience of most Americans, kept harping on the word values as he proclaimed that he was in tune with "the heartbeat of the country." For Dukakis, who often seems closer in spirit to Roger Rabbit than Rambo, his mantra was the adjective tough. Whether it was tackling the "tough choices" on domestic spending...
When Eastern began shuttling in 1961, the service made its mark by guaranteeing passengers a seat with no reservations required. The airline even promised that a plane would take off with only one passenger on board, a promise it has kept five times. The service grew to 60 flights a day, 3 million passengers a year. So many people were commuting between the three cities that Pan Am decided to jump into the market two years ago, offering coffee, rubbery bagels, seat phones and boat service connecting a swank art deco terminal to Wall Street. This prompted Eastern to counter...
...retired and living in Williamsburg, Va., Meyers still remembers the us- and-them mentality of the Nixon campaign. "The press pool would be put in the rear of the plane and kept away from things," Meyers recalls. Morale became so bad that the Nixon people added another public relations man to the staff to entertain reporters. "One of his talents was making funny little animals out of balloons," Meyers laughs. "But once you've seen one little animal, you've satisfied a lifetime need...
...with an acute case of political leprosy. Switzerland, France and Britain, concerned about oil and terrorism, rolled up the welcome mat. Despite entreaties by the Rockefellers, who handled the fallen Shah's finances and provided him with a live-in public relations man, and Henry Kissinger, President Jimmy Carter kept the door shut. This position hardened after the U.S. embassy in Tehran was overrun and the hostages taken in November...