Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point Meyers and Sidey switched assignments for several weeks. Meyers, accustomed to the longer meal breaks on the Nixon campaign, lost 2 1/2 lbs. Sidey recalls that a Kennedy staffer joked that "the Senator has said that 17 million Americans go to bed hungry at night, and he expects you to do your part...
...nation is no longer moated -- economically, militarily -- by the Atlantic and Pacific. As Viet Nam instructed, what America touches does not necessarily become sacred -- an end of the Wilsonian illusion. America, which once cherished the conviction that God had endowed its national idea, began feeling lost in what might be called the Brownian motions of history -- Brownian movement being the term for molecules that fly about with no discernible pattern or reason. The American pre-eminence in manufacturing is gone. A thousand hypodermic needles are punching through the nation's borders...
...since 1952 has its occupant been re-elected. To extend that tradition, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy has been husbanding his cash for a final blitz to rescue his ailing campaign. Wilson is vulnerable for being wishy-washy; he withheld endorsement of the Reagan-Gorbachev INF treaty even longer than Senate Republican leader Bob Dole...
They are also demanding consumers. As the number of older students has risen, so have calls for on-site day care, flexible course schedules to accommodate full-time jobs, longer hours for campus bookstores and libraries, and more aggressive job counseling and placement. Schools are rethinking who they are. "We have had to come down from our ivory tower," says Donald Baker, dean of the College of Continuing Education at Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.). "Quality and service are as important in education as in industry...
...loans. Beyond that, she would select the best and give them to 13 museums to promote the fashion industry. According to the selected museums, the last such donation was in 1982. In February of that year she said she had told all her favorite designers that she would no longer accept any dresses on loan. The First Lady does not appear to have kept that promise...