Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with his affable smile and his 10-gallon hat, but when the bills came to his desk, he cut the taxes of the wealthy and added to the burden on working people. Michael S. Dukakis and vice presidential nominee Lloyd M. Bentsen do not pretend that they are just plain folk. They are more interested in making programs than pretense. They will be on the side of average Americans when it comes time to protect their economic and civil rights...
...Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...
...campaign season is upon Israel, and it is politics at its worst: a steady diet of demagoguery, diatribe, distortion and plain dirt. The Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, now in its eleventh month, has crowded out pocketbook issues and focused Israeli thinking on the far more emotional themes of peace and security. In that sense, the Nov. 1 election is nothing less than a referendum on Israel's policies toward the occupied territories. Likud asserts a territorial imperative that cedes no ground to the Palestinians; Labor is willing to negotiate territorial compromise in exchange for peace. Each side accuses...
While the President last week pooh-poohed the flap as a "cheap political shot," some conservatives have been critical. Wrote New York Times columnist William Safire: "For a public official's wife to be 'on the take' is wrong, plain and simple." After TIME's initial inquiries about the First Lady's clothes, a number of outfits that had been lent to Nancy Reagan were quietly returned to their owners...
WORLD: Israel' s election campaign features a diet of demagoguery, diatribe, distortion and plain dirt...