Word: lassoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...D.L.C.'s diagnosis of some of the party's problems: he has reduced the number of its special-interest caucuses and increased the proportion of elected Democrats who will be delegates at the 1988 convention. Kirk is also on the record as saying that the Democrats cannot lasso the White House in 1988 without a Sunbelt candidate on the ticket...
Your girlfriend says to you: "Why can't you be more like Sam Shepard?" She buys you denim jackets, refuses to wash your bluejeans, pickles your tongue with shots of tequila. "Why don't you buy a lasso?" she suggests. "Buck broncos, for Christ's sake. Dip snuff, do chaw, go smokeless, anything...
...Malcolm Baldrige, chairman of Scovill Inc., a power in Connecticut Republican affairs and a close friend of Vice President-elect George Bush's. As Ronald Reagan's choice for Secretary of Commerce, Baldrige will bring to Washington -a proven capacity for managing, along with the practice lasso he keeps by his desk...
...they are happy to share a meal, a cup of coffee, anything, with students, but no one asks them. "There's frustration and resentment among the Faculty that they are ignored by students," Fox says. "Students have to take the initiative--it's very difficult for faculty to lasso students on the street. Faculty are available if students would just state, "This is what I would like...
...Hampshire campaign manager, says. "Polls have fluctuated with great gradience," Fromuth says about Connally's deteriorating showing in a recent New York Times survey. "The thing to watch is how we do in the primaries." Connally confidently foresees the downfall of former Governor Ronald Reagan, hoping to lasso many of his supporters. He asserts that Republicans are looking for a "real" conservative to challenge former CIA director George Bush. "The conservatives," Fromuth says, "want a winner...