Word: label
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That label-pinning is a function of the instant analysis afforded by TV coverage, Reese notes. "It's part of the spin, the angle," he says...
...Kennedy is not above summoning the tragedies of the past to help him. In a televised debate two weeks ago, Malone tried to label the liberal Senator's position on crime too generous for criminals and too unsympathetic for victims. Kennedy responded, "no one has to tell me the effect of violence on a family"--thereby defusing the issue for the rest of the debate...
AIDS still has the stigma in our society of being labeled the "gay men's disease." There is widespread feeling that it isn't something to worry about as long as you're "normal"--some go as far as to label the disease "God's retribution for the sins of gay men." These attitudes are clearly intolerable, and although neither Bush nor Dukakis would ever make such claims, the logic that AIDS is an isolated plague underlies both of the candidates' approaches to the disease...
...first stop of the day, Dukakis did not repeat the "I am a liberal" statement he made Sunday after dodging the label for months. But he later cloaked himself in the "liberal tradition of great presidents" as he made his way through California, and said Bush doesn't understand "the tradition of being on the side of working families...
Questioned by reporters about his decision to embrace the label he has shunned for months, Dukakis said he comes from the liberal tradition of "presidents who were on the side of average Americans, presidents who helped to build middle class America...