Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think people are entitled to know as much as possible about a candidate for president," says Fouhy, who covered the Civil Rights movement during the 1960s. "Even their private lives [are subject to scrutiny], if in their private lives we learn something about their characters and how they will behave as presidents...
...polygraphy examination doesn't measure whether a person is lying because there is no known physiological reaction unique to lying. It's a nice idea that like Pinocchio's nose, our body would give us away when we lie. People can learn to beat a polygraph," said Saxe...
...Shrum, 44, an intense and brilliant veteran wordsmith in four presidential campaigns, went to work on a television ad that would bring Gephardt's theme to life. It showed a stern-looking Gephardt promising to force the Koreans to reduce tariffs on American cars, or "they'll soon learn how many Americans will pay $48,000 for a Hyundai." The spot hit the air in Iowa the day after Christmas and grabbed viewers by the collar. "What the TV did was punch through what I'd been saying for a year," Gephardt explained last week. "We finally got across that...
...guidance counselor warned that she lacked the skills for such a program, Hernandez enrolled, only to quit when the going got too rough. Now receiving bills for $4,400 in outstanding loans, she baby-sits for a precarious living. "I just wasted my time," she says. "I didn't learn nothing" -- except a tough lesson about trade schools...
American diplomats no longer need worry whether nanny is a spy. The graduates, paid a starting salary of about $1,300 a month, improve their Russian and learn about the Soviet Union. Says Nancy Carney, 22, a Tufts University graduate, during a break from scrubbing floors at Ambassador Jack Matlock's residence: "I'm having a ball...