Word: metting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hatcher participated in a series of tumultuous meetings in 1983 in which the Black political community met to decide whether to field a candidate in the 1984 presidential race. After a good deal of controversy, Hatcher says, a group of Black leaders first decided in Chicago to support a Black candidate and picked Jesse Jackson some what later. Hatcher says a number of other Blacks were considered, including Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young...
Most Obvious Name-Dropping. Quayle's assertion that Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and Britain's Margaret Thatcher "know" him. He has met each only once, and for no longer than a few minutes...
Neil Kinnock was a worried man as he mounted the podium in Blackpool last week. As the Labor Party met for its annual conference, the latest polls showed that only one voter in four expects it to form a government in the next ten years. He knew that once again his leadership was on trial...
Quayle's own preparation started more than three weeks ago, when Henry Kissinger met with the candidate and other advisers at Washington's Ritz- Carlton hotel to provide a three-hour tour d'horizon of world affairs. Over the next few weeks, Quayle aides concocted more than 200 possible questions. In the week before the debate, Quayle, intensively coached by Bush media guru Roger Ailes, performed two mock debate rehearsals with Oregon Senator Bob Packwood playing Bentsen. At one point Packwood rudely interrupted so the handlers could see how Quayle would react. They even considered faking a power failure...
...essays by art historians Jean Sutherland Boggs, Douglas Druick, Henri Loyrette, Michael Pantazzi and Gary Tinterow, weighs a tad over 6 lbs. Thanks to their efforts and those of the three museums that mutually organized the show -- the Musee d'Orsay, the National Gallery of Canada and the Met -- we have the means to see this extraordinarily complicated and sometimes elusive painter with a completeness not possible before...