Word: mervin
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...parents say that 10 years ago the FBI told them it was no longer pursuing Soliah. But California still wanted her. The recent dip in crime allowed the L.A.P.D.. to reassign officers to unsolved cases, and Lieut. Tom King, 50, whose father Mervin had led the firefight against the S.L.A., took a fresh look at Soliah's and Kilgore's. His men got a federal jury to indict her for "unlawful flight to avoid prosecution." That warrant brought the FBI back in. Last month the bureau posted a $20,000 reward and asked the syndicated TV show America...
...last week. It calls for a last-ditch effort to win California and its 54 electoral votes, even if that means neglecting smaller but more promising potential swing states like Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As justification, Dole's team points to one important poll, the San Francisco-based Mervin Field survey. Early last week it showed Dole just 10 points behind Clinton. That's a manageable gap, the argument goes. Close it, add a few big Midwestern states, and maybe, if turnout is good and God is a Republican, there's a base for a narrow victory. "We take...
...toothed language, make a virtue of Dole's familiarity, his room-temperature manner and his gift for legislative dealing. When the Election Monitor asked which candidate had the best chance of beating Bill Clinton, Dole came out ahead. "Buchanan just sends off so many sparks," says California-based pollster Mervin Field. "If ever somebody polarized the public, it's Buchanan. He's given a new definition to the word polarizing...
Family values is a peculiar ingredient in this year's campaign. California pollster Mervin Field says, "The public has a limited amount of problem space in their heads . . . If you're at a rally and you're worried about losing your job, you don't care to hear about family values." But the historian Christopher Lasch remarks, "To see the modern world from the point of view of a parent is to see it in the worst possible light." The deeper energy in the values argument arises from that parent's perspective upon the future. It makes them angry...
...outweighing any specific issue is the cumulative impression made by the sheer number of them. Says Mervin Field, conductor of the respected California Poll: "If it was just marital infidelity, ((voters)) might have excused that, but the cumulative weight of that and everything else is too much. The degree of uncomfortableness is increasing day by day." Even while endorsing Clinton last month, former President Jimmy Carter lamented that the "volume and repetition of charges against him have created an image that he's not $ trustworthy" -- most unfairly, in Carter's view...