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