Word: mites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks before he dropped out." If some candidates are misguided, observes Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, others are astonishingly absentminded. Gate escorted Republican Candidate John Anderson to a TIME editors' lunch in New York City. "Anderson rushed into the lobby of the Time-Life Building looking a mite perturbed," he recalls. "He came up to me and asked for $10, explaining, 'My bags are in the cab outside, and the driver is holding them be cause I don't have any money.' " Says Cate: "I lent the Congress man ten bucks, which was repaid...
...listeners laughed heartily, if a mite uneasily. Dryer's caricature bore more than a passing resemblance to the 750 reporters and 300 photographers who descended on Los Angeles last week to watch the Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers collide in Super Bowl XIV. For seven days, the National Football League virtually immobilized the journalists in a thick public relations syrup. Upon arriving they were given a designer carryall, a briefcase and enough press handouts to reconstruct a tree. They were bused to mind-numbing press conferences and interview sessions, and courtesy cars were available if they wanted to take...