Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earnestly wooden style, Mulroney appears poised and confident. The Conservative leader kicked off his campaign to exchange his parliamentary seat in Nova Scotia for a new one in the Manicouagan riding of Quebec by visiting his home town of Baie Comeau on the St. Lawrence River. As a pack of reporters tagged along, Mulroney enthusiastically greeted boyhood friends and even visited a nursing home to say hello to a woman who once looked after him as a child. "I've met half my home town," he quipped. "They'll vote twice, so that's everyone." Mulroney...
...city is so conservative that even its gay community has a Reaganaut flavor."There are thousands of gay Republicans in this town," says one of them. "We pack some power." Dallas, with over 900,000 people, seventh biggest metropolis in the nation, is the largest city with a manager form of government. It wants the world to know that politics has no place in municipal services here. Sewers and garbage are attended to with dispatch. Potholes-called chuckholes in Dallas-are supposedly filled within three hours. Dallas is a clean family town. In preparation for the convention, a "Haul...
Stirred by Benita Fitzgerald-Brown's victory in the women's 100-meter hurdles, the audience was ready for a main event, but unprepared for a drama deeper than a race. The pack holds no attraction for either Decker, 26, or Budd, 18, front runners in every sense. They would naturally fight for the lead, where they could ignore the jostling and bumping behind them. A half-stride ahead on the outside at the 1600-meter mark and in tight quarters with Decker, Zola was knocked first abobble and then akimbo (see box). Decker, meanwhile, could not have...
...which swiftly reinstated her. After studying numerous television replays and discussing every known rule of track etiquette, nobody except Decker seemed absolutely sure there was a foul, let alone who committed it. Cornelia Buerki of Switzerland, also South African-born, had a respectable view from the back of the pack. "I would say it was Mary's fault," she said. "She was trying to pass Budd on the inside and spiked Zola's Achilles. Zola couldn't help anything because she couldn't see in the back of her head." Instantly, ABC Commentator Marty Liquori thought...
...Olympics as much by the television commercials as by the players. Benoit and her teammates moved to a chorus of marketplace acknowledgments that "feminine" has been redefined. "These women have a dream," exulted an Avon spot over a shot of women donning their running shoes. The Arco tots, a pack of three-or four-year-old boys and girls, raced toward the camera. As a little girl in pigtails broke the tape, her look of triumph bespoke a fu ture unimaginable even ten years ago. Once she would have been called a tomboy. Now she is called an athlete...