Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baker and Connally also have been following a catch-up strategy. Lacking the organization of the top two, they are conducting a lavish media blitz aimed at bringing out as big a caucus vote as possible. "The more people who turn out, the more it helps me," says Baker. But that is a strategy better calculated to work in a primary than in a caucus. Connally and Baker are both also trying to shake as many hands as possible, but they are several thousand behind Bush. As Dick Redman, Baker's Iowa campaign chairman, puts it: "In Iowa, folks...
...mayors came to power with lavish promises and high hopes of curing unemployment, housing shortages and a host of other blights that bedevil Italian urban centers. A model government in Bologna, successfully run by Communists since 1945, had inspired millions of voters to believe that the Communists were brilliant city managers. Riding the wave of that single reputation, the party hoped to produce showpiece regimes that would help catapult the Communists to national power by the sheer force of local example...