Word: messing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tries to hold a private midnight meeting with Jesse Jackson. His Secret Service limousine takes him to a back door of the Hyatt Wilshire in Los Angeles, where Jackson is staying. Reporters, alerted to the rendezvous, race through the hotel, but Dukakis evades them. Jackson's suite is a mess. As aides dispose of the remains of a chicken-and-greens dinner, Secret Service agents sweep swarming journalists from the corridor...
Almost everything the company produces these days seems to fly out of showrooms. The latest Ford model is a hot two- door hatchback called the Probe, which was designed and developed in a joint project with Mazda. -- Lee Iacocca sounds off in his second book, Talking Straight. -- A mess of misleading economic indicators fluctuate wildly and go through repeated revisions...
High winds made for very choppy water and great difficulty lining up the racing shells on the stake-boats at the starting line. Race organizers decided not to mess with Mother Nature, and deemed the course to be unrowable for the two days the heats and finals were supposed to be have been held...
Older alumni had in fact asked Yale President Benno C. Schmidt the previous day "When are you going to get rid of that dingy mess out there?" according to Charney, who was at Yale for his 20th reunion. He said that although Schmidt received applause at the symposium when he defended the shanties as an expression of free speech, the crowd reacted with mixed applause and boos when the president went on to defend Yale's $161 million in South Africa- linked holdings...
...town of Canton, 22 miles away, the Pigeon River is a clean and lovely stream, lively with trout and tourists. By the time it leaves Canton (pop. 5,000), flowing toward and finally into Cocke County, Tenn., 50 miles away, the Pigeon has been transmogrified into a sludgy mess that looks like oily coffee and smells as bad as rotten eggs. The cause of this revolting change: industrial wastes that Champion International Corp. has been dumping into the Pigeon since the company opened a paper mill in Canton 80 years...