Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CLEARLY this is a gamble by Dukakis, partly made in desperation, and will be a danger-ridden adventure for him. In order to answer Koppel's questions, he may be forced to show his liberal, yes liberal, views on the issues. Ninety minutes with Koppel will give Dukakis little place to hide. If the public is as conservative as both Bush and Dukakis seem to think, this may not bode well...
...order for Michael Dukakis to win, he'd need the support of upwards of 90 percent of that vote with significant turnout. The reaching out to Black voters was never manifested to the extent that it was necessary," said Bolling...
...moment? Maybe. The drama lingers in images of black and white as a moment of moral sunshine for Americans, or of remembered innocence. The candidates, youngish veterans, connected them to the days of their last good war. The election of 1960 was the end of America's postwar political order and the beginning (starting 1,110 days later) of a long, tumbling historical free fall (assassinations, riots, Viet Nam, Watergate, oil embargoes, hostages in Iran, the economic rise of the Pacific Rim nations, on and on -- glasnost, China) that has created an utterly new world and left America searching...
Some designers, however, have a different recollection. While agreeing that Mrs. Reagan has purchased many items, they say she has definitely borrowed others and has not returned all of them. Los Angeles designer David Hayes said Mrs. Reagan has borrowed 60 to 80 expensive, made-to-order outfits from him in the past eight years. "We think of it as loans," he says. "It's wonderful. She has been a sensation for my business." Hayes said the First Lady has returned more than half of the borrowed items but has kept the others. "Once something is worn," he said...
...dress," she joked to the Los Angeles Times in 1980 after her expensive tastes were noticed. "I don't know anyone who can." That was a bit of hyperbole. Moreover, the President's current salary of $200,000 a year could cover the cost of many made-to-order outfits...