Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lurked a far more relevant issue: whether he has the qualifications to be a heartbeat from the presidency. Placards at one appearance were succinctly cruel: SISSY RICH BOY and INTENSELY MEDIOCRE. Conservative Columnist George Will argued that Quayle desperately needed a "stature transfusion" and even set a deadline: by Labor Day the candidate should "be good or be gone" from the ticket. The Des Moines Register, a prominent editorial voice in the usually Republican heartland, called on Bush to drop Quayle. The New York Times said, "If Mr. Bush wanted someone against whom he could brightly shine, he could hardly...
...higher court. Because both sides have chosen the judge, "it is hard, even for the losing party, not to accept the decision," says William Polkinghorn, senior counsel for Bank of America, who takes part in about half a dozen such proceedings each year. Though popular first in contract and labor disputes, rent-a-judging has spread to malpractice, family law and other areas: 70% of Judicate's caseload involves personal-injury suits...
This seemingly implacable trend forced Democrats into small-bore strategies as they sought to concentrate on the minimum of states necessary to yield 270. But this year promises to be different. After Labor Day, Dukakis and Bush should be about evenly matched in electoral votes they can probably count on. A careful look at the map shows Bush and Dukakis each starting with relatively reliable bases almost identical in size -- 115 electoral votes for Bush, 112 for Dukakis...
...protests were the first since last spring, when strikers plunged the country into the most widespread labor unrest since the tumult that spawned Solidarity in 1980. In response, authorities initially cut off food supplies to workers occupying a mine near Jastrzebie. But by week's end, as the unrest spread, the government's National Defense Committee threatened "appropriate decisions" and joint units of soldiers and military police patrolled Silesia...
...Johnson, but who was as hard as Barry against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Once again, Bush was extending the spirit of the tough summer job. Rich kids are supposed to go out and join the workers in the field, but they are also supposed to come home by Labor Day. Bush was staying on, going native. In undertaking this unrequited love affair with Texas, Bush tried too hard, too embarrassingly, to be what he was not, and found it impossible to maintain his own dignity or gain his neighbors' respect. He was putting himself in line for a long...