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Although national polls pointed to a victory by GOP nominee Bush, both candidates battled the clock and physical exhaustion in a final drive to snare undecided voters and nail down a claim to the presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Days Show Race Tightening | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Bush was making his way through Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio and New Jersey aiming to nail down victory in a race he had led since a late-summer surge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis Says Bush Is Losing Ground | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

Under such a system, Jesse Jackson could nail Bush on the Reagan Administration's attempts to gut the Voting Rights Act and to reduce federal grants for low-income students. Sam Nunn or Al Gore could specifically pinpoint wasteful defense systems and force Bush to explain how he would guard against another procurement mess in the Pentagon...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...controversial technical ruling that penalized the Americans a fatal half point. Come the all-around, it was a duel to the last 10 between Rumania's perky Daniela Silivas and the Soviets' no-nonsense Elena Shushunova. By a margin of just 0.025 of a point, Shushunova squeaked by to nail the gold, with teammate Svetlana Boginskaya capturing the bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High And the Sprightly | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...memorable discussions generated by this year's presidential election--a theme close to his heart in recent weeks--he can point to his own record of sharp political commentary. Few other prominent critics of the campaign between Gov. Michael Dukakis and Vice President George Bush have offered a thumb-nail sketch of their own publicly held political convictions, let alone a four-panel cartoon...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: The Issues of the Day | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

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