Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Bush was included and had meaningful tasks to perform. "There was tension, of course," says a Bush friend. "Baker ran Reagan's '84 campaign, and Bush had to take direction from him. That was when Bush was made to travel the low road, and it was obvious that he felt Baker was looking out for Reagan first. That was only proper, of course, but George didn't like it anyway...
Franz Schonhuber, 66, the burly national chairman of the Republican Party, capitalized on that disillusionment. During the campaign, he called for the repatriation, in stages, of foreign workers, an obvious reference to the 120,000 Turks in West Berlin. He also urged tough measures to stem the flow of asylum-seekers, proclaiming that a "multiracial society is a red flag to our party. We don't want it." On election night, Schonhuber exulted, "Today the Germans have shown again the need for a democratically purified patriotism...
Even when a star is born, she still needs an education. And for Meredith Dawn Salenger, Harvard was the obvious choice...
...obvious that the club-level Terriers were in for a long evening when the Crimson scored less than a minute into the game. Throughout the evening there seemed to be twice as many Harvard players on the ice: wherever the puck went, a Crimson skater was there...
...Soviet glasnost relations, the writers have deftly swayed away from any direct attacks on the Russian government. Porizkova's Nina does not come from the Soviet Union, but is rather supposed to be a native of Romania. But the temptation of using the KGB as an obvious foil to the good American guys seems to have been irresistible, and so we see it re-enacted again. Once more, in the spirit of James Bond and other spy thrillers, we see a plot that rests on the virtues of an East-West conflict...