Word: needing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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June 1: Bush unveils his fiscal 1990 budget, with NO NEW TAXES. "Read my lips, Congress, NO NEW TAXES!" he proclaims. "If you really need to increase revenues, then you are just going to have to raise the taxes we already have...
...Some people are inclined to take everything so seriously that the slightest amount of humor brings hurt to them," said Jeff K. Wyatt, a co-social editor. "Maybe people need a little more bran in their diets...
...need to like people, and I do a lot," Williams says of politics. Whether campaigning from door to door or traveling to work by public transportation, "you learn a hell of a lot. There is nothing like it." She adds, "That is what I love about politics and what I most miss by being in these hallowed portals...
...shielded their men from spontaneous contact with the press, arranging instead a series of colorful, staged-for-TV events. On most days the strategy worked. "TV producers are like nymphomaniacs when it comes to visuals," explains Albert Hunt, Washington bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. "Television's insatiable need for pretty pictures has cheapened the campaign...
...power of ideological true believers in both parties. It can be argued that Bush as the heir to Reagan may have in any case embraced the President's read- my-lips gospel on taxes, but the unyielding fervor of the Vice President's position was shaped by his need to placate the right wing of his party. Similarly, no matter how Dukakis had chosen to position himself on the spectrum, it was probably inevitable that Bush would have gravitated to divisive issues like the Pledge of Allegiance. Still, the overheated liberal atmosphere of Iowa certainly made Bush's task easier...