Word: packs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traffic there lately, at the delicate junction where country meets its past, sizes up its future and -- probably most important -- guns its musical motor and goes off in its own direction. And Crowell, a wonderfully gifted songwriter and rambunctious performer, isn't even driving the fastest car in the pack...
...Boston Globe, which is giving the Veep race the kind of front-page, box- score coverage usually reserved for the Red Sox, has anointed various candidates as leader of the pack; the most recent was Albert Gore. By all appearances, the Tennessee Senator would seem to have disqualified himself by his attacks during the New York primary when he called Dukakis "very dangerous" and "irresponsible" on nuclear arms issues -- which could prove tougher to live down than Bush's description of Reagan's "voodoo economics." But Gore made nice enough in his postprimary endorsement to be invited to Brookline...
...times are even tougher in Canada. Last week Parliament passed a law that bans cigarette ads in print as of Jan. 1 and banishes them from billboards by 1991. (As in the U.S., cigarette makers in Canada do not advertise on TV.) Beginning next year, every pack of cigarettes sold in Canada will contain a leaflet explaining the dangers of smoking. The tobacco industry fears that the Canadian legislation will inspire a similar crackdown by Congress...
...grandfather, who does not speak Spanish, nevertheless knows she is asking him to sit down. A Miami personnel officer understands what a job applicant means when he says, "Quiero un part time." Nor do drivers miss a beat reading a billboard alongside a Los Angeles street advertising CERVEZA -- SIX-PACK...
Departing from the pack, Peterson said heconsidered it likely that Bush would select arelatively popular governor from a large state,such as governors Thomas Kean of New Jersey,George Deukmejian of California or James Thompsonof Illinois