Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ciudad Juarez (the two cities' combined population exceeds 1.5 million). But for the narrow concrete channel that guides the Rio Grande through the urban sprawl, it would be difficult to pick out the boundary. There is synergy everywhere, from the maquiladoras on the Mexican side, where American manufacturers pay less than $1 an hour to a largely grateful work force, to the shops lining El Paso's Bridge Street, where Spanish is the vernacular...
...that sounds more like something to be found on the approaches to the Berlin Wall, then it would probably surprise Americans to learn that foreigners entering the U.S. are often accorded a good deal less courtesy than they would expect, perhaps demand, from a Mexican official. Proffering my British passport, with its multiple-entry visa to the U.S. inside, to a Customs officer, the conversation goes like this...
Clearly we are dealing with a failure of political will. But that failure extends beyond the candidates, to the voters. The Republican Party refuses to raise taxes; the Democratic Party refuses to cut nonmilitary spending; and the American people more or less agree with both positions. Until they abandon one or the other, they'll be stuck with the problem...
...flow of things being what it is; 1960 and 1988 are not only different rivers, they run in different courses altogether. It is startling to remember now that Kennedy's Catholicism was the single greatest issue of the campaign and almost unhorsed him in a race he won by less than 120,000 votes. It is a trivia question to ask which two islands off the coast of mainland China received inordinate attention during the second and third television debates between Kennedy and Nixon (Quemoy and Matsu). Both candidates dedicated to strong national defense. The Soviet Union and the Cold...
...professionalism of the media handlers in 1988 invigorates the political process infinitely less than the emotional intimacy of the 1960 campaign. For all its spooky powers, television rarely achieves any ignitions of the personal in a campaign. Never in the 1988 campaign does one see anything like the public passion that was displayed, for both candidates, during 1960. Kennedy had his "jumpers" -- females who forested the parade routes, who swooned and leaped and shrieked. "It was flat-out every day and most of the night, ten or 15 days at a time without a day off," remembers Ted Sorensen. "Today...