Word: mate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downbeat shot of Walter Mondale and Running Mate Geraldine Ferraro trudging down New York City streets that are almost eerily empty. Smiles fixed, they wave energetically at no one in particular. CBS describes the Labor Day parade crowd as "puny." Poor timing is blamed: the 9 a.m. start on a holiday is too early for most New Yorkers. On to Merrill, Wis., where Congressman David Obey warms up the crowd by exclaiming, "When the sun comes out in Merrill, the Democrats are going to win!" Intermittent rain begins to fall. Mondale gamely pushes on to Long Beach, Calif; the sound...
...that Reagan is a detached, even dangerous, Chief Executive who falls asleep in Cabinet meetings and makes light of bombing the Russians. Said Mondale to the American Legion: "He even jokes about nuclear war. It's not funny." When the Soviets negotiate arms control with Mondale, said Running Mate Ferraro, "they'll have to deal with a man who understands the world and knows what he is doing." Ferraro also contrasted Reagan's show-business past with Mondale's career in Government. "While Ronald Reagan was host of Death Valley Days, Fritz Mondale was trying...
Democrats cling to a few wild cards. Although the choice of Ferraro as running mate does not seem to have helped Mondale much in the polls, it may have stemmed further erosion. Many reporters watching Ferraro on the stump feel that the excitement she generates at almost every stop may translate into an unexpectedly large number of votes for the ticket in November, particularly among the Yuppies. Typical was an impromptu rally last week in a hotel lobby in conservative Spokane, Wash.: it was so jammed that the fire marshal had to turn away 300 to 500 people, but most...
...keeping with the old motto on its best-known product, "Milk from contented cows," Carnation has grown somewhat complacent in recent years. In more aggressive times it bought the Contadina tomato-products brand and created Friskies pet foods and Coffee-Mate nondairy creamer. But Carnation's last acquisition of any size was the $30 million purchase in 1973 of a company that makes class rings. Since 1980 sales have been flat (1983 revenues: $3.4 billion). Says Dan B. Williams, an analyst with Sutro & Co., a San Francisco investment banking firm: "Some observers think Carnation has been stodgy...
...whose efforts to rid herself of that quality are, needless to say, marred by excessiveness. She loves her husband and daughter to pieces, and when we meet her at a divorce hearing she is sweetly, distractedly explaining that she cannot be too precise about times and dates when her mate can visit their child; they have this busy schedule flying about the country, visiting sick and dying relatives. Later, trying to forget her troubles by touring Europe, she is undone by excess baggage...