Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listeners interrupted his 24-min. speech 54 times with applause, and when Reagan shrugged, "Well, I've got to go now," they shouted, "No! No! No!" Reagan waved genially. A thousand balloons floated skyward. The crowd chanted, "Four more years! Four more years...
Those impressions stand to be fixed powerfully in voters' minds this week: the vice-presidential candidates meet for their single 90-min. debate on Thursday in Philadelphia...
...dates and stood our ground on the question of format." In the debates, four journalists will each ask two questions; the candidates, standing at a podium, will respond to the same eight questions. Reagan and Mondale will get three chances to address each topic, initially with a 2½-min. answer, then with a 1-min. follow-up and rebuttal. As Mondale wished, the second presidential debate is scheduled to come after the diversionary hubbub of the World Series, and the encounters will last 90 min. apiece. Each camp is gloating over a minor tactical triumph. The first debate will...
State Department officials have insisted, however, that the Israelis must first tighten the country's belt several notches. In a 90-min. session with Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i last week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis abandoned his mild-mannered style to deliver a stern lecture on frugality. "You are going to have to drop your standard of living and live within your means," he said. Moda'i seemed to take the injunction to heart when he described the Lewis get-together later to a group of Israeli manufacturers. "This was almost the motto...
RECOVERING. Menachem Begin, 71, former Prime Minister of Israel who resigned last September for reasons that to this day he has not fully explained; after a 90-min. operation to remove his prostate; at Shaare Zedek Hospital; in Jerusalem. Begin is reported to be in good condition...