Word: labeled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis spent the fall on the defensive rather than taking charge of the agenda. He entered the campaign a blank slate, and Bush scrawled all over him. Bush made liberal a dirty word, while Dukakis stupidly insisted that such a label was "meaningless." For John Sasso, the street-savvy alter ego of Dukakis who was rehabilitated on Labor Day weekend to take over the campaign, this single mistake spelled the end. "One of the rules of the business is somebody gets to fill up the cup," he explained. "If you want to be successful, you have to fill...
...science by label," said Bakker, "and labeling is a very powerful influence on research. If you define a dinosaur as a reptile, you don't have to think about it anymore...
...says, "People tend to label you aninsider, which is probably true--only that theinsider has brought those issues, which used to beon the outside, on the inside. I didn't have tojump and scream at Harvard when they came to theCity Council, because I had one ninth of thatpower, to vote them up or vote them down...
While many friends declined to label the first-year Cornell graduate student a genius, they said hard work and an incredible enthusiasm for the subject created a potent programming ability. They said, however, that any computer graduate student was capable ofcreating the virus that entered the NationalSecurity Agency's computer system, haltingterminals at many of the premier researchinstitutions in the country and the Pentagon...
...label. I'm not a label. And I reject that. The way Bush is using it is of one who doesn't have values, who condones permissiveness, who's outside the mainstream. That's a perversion. Am I a liberal in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and John Kennedy? Yes, I am. I'm also a man who balanced budgets and cut taxes and put five times as many drug pushers in jail as my predecessor...