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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former Education Secretary William J. Bennett in 1986 tagged the program "Core lite," comparing the curriculum to its Gen Ed predecessor and assailing it for not being academically rigid...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: Realities of a Harvard Education | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

...start singing all the Michelob Lite commercial theme songs during lecture (e.g., the Frank Sinatra...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Silence in Dallas and Madness in March | 3/9/1989 | See Source »

...populist campaign theme of "It's your fight too." Gephardt's specter of $48,000 Hyundais, Dukakis suggested, pandered to an American xenophobic streak by railing against foreign companies. Now, however, Dukakis is showing a commercial featuring a Japanese flag. His slogan "I'm on your side" is Gephardt Lite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dose of Old-Time Populism | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...Politics Lite -- or how the presidential campaign has turned into stylized images masquerading as sincere efforts to commune with the people. -- An antidrug bill so tough it may be unconstitutional. -- With the earth drowning in man-made wastes, Dukakis and Bush are forced to face environmental issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Sep.19, 1988 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...better in campaign ads than in committee rooms. The press made a concerted effort to communicate its view -- and that of some of Quayle's colleagues -- that the Republicans were about to nominate a man without the heft to handle the job. There were anonymous gibes: "Quayle is Bush Lite." His academic record became an issue; as even Quayle admits, "I was not a very good student." The Wall Street Journal quoted one of his college professors as saying, "He was as vapid a student as I can ever recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans:The Quayle Quagmire | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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