Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Sen. Robert Dole (R-Ka.) and former television evangelist Pat Robertson finishing first and second, respectively, in the Republican race, the experts agreed that the Vice President needs a powerful showing in New Hampshire to keep up with his opponents...
...ridiculous, entertainment-oriented sports will make their appearance. Expect to see more along the lines of synchronized swimming--maybe synchronized dancing, Rockettes-style. On the election front, more and more ridiculous, entertainment-oriented candidates will make their appearance. Expect to see more along the lines of Gary Hart and Pat Robertson...
...person with an innate understanding of nature." Palley urged Stankard to give up his job and concentrate on fashioning flowers. He would pay him $250 a week to start; in return he would have first refusal on Stankard's work. "What should I do?" Stankard asked his wife Pat. Her reply: Wait for two weeks after the birth of their fourth child. Then do it. The association was to last five years, and Palley was a demanding master: Stankard smashed his first week's production with a hammer because Palley told him it was not good enough...
Lowballing. Some of Pat Robertson's organizers are employing a sly gambit to help their man in the Iowa expectations game. Supporters have been told to tell pollsters they might not attend a caucus. Since nearly all Iowa surveys , are discarding "unlikely attenders," Robertson will end up with an artificially low figure in the polls. Thus his finish on caucus night is more likely to produce a p.r. boost by being better than the polls indicated...
Road Warriors. Riding his campaign bus last week, Pat Robertson boasted to a San Francisco reporter that because he found the Washington Post's coverage so biased, he had banned the paper's correspondents from the bus. "But I just left a Post reporter," the journalist said. "I was sitting next to him." Robertson angrily summoned a press aide, who explained that the reporter on board, Bill Peterson, had not written anything offensive about the televangelist; it was T.R. Reid who had been blacklisted for his articles. "I don't care," Robertson retorted. "Get him off. I don't care...