Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diving looked good," said Pierce. "The mechanics are there. It's a matter of getting them clear and crisp...
...There are people who feel that this City Council has not been responding--is not even being given the information it needs from the City Manager--to handle this matter in a responsible way," said Wolf...
Gore, during his low-profile session with Koch, played the charming tutorial student. He allowed that no matter whom Koch endorsed, he hoped they would remain friends. Koch smiled. That was precisely what he had once told former New York Governor Hugh Carey. Gore replied he knew that, having just read Koch's memoirs. Koch smiled again. A contrarian by nature, Koch surprised his advisers by choosing Gore...
Intellectual brilliance, of course, is hardly a requirement in politics: Nixon and Carter were among the most intelligent of modern Presidents, and Reagan the least. Dukakis demonstrated that a brainy campaign run by the best and brightest minds is capable of badly misreading the issues that matter to Americans...
Nevertheless, a Bush peace initiative would have a chance. His stump speech avoided personal attacks on Hill leaders. When Dukakis started scoring heavily on Ed Meese and sleaze, Bush countered with a call for an investigation of House Majority Leader Jim Wright, but quickly dropped the matter after Meese resigned. Similarly, even while his old Texas friend Lloyd Bentsen was attacking him daily on the stump, often in intimate terms, Bush avoided even a single personal criticism of the powerful Senate Finance Committee chairman throughout the entire campaign...