Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis should pledge to use tough negotiation to open Japanese and European markets to American foodstuffs. Japanese agriculture is protected so heavily that their consumers pay 27 percent of their disposable income on food, compared to 14 percent in the U.S.
He should also pledge to work toward forgiveness of Latin American foreign debt, so that those countries can afford to purchase American commodities. In the vice presidential debate, Dan Quayle insisted that debt forgiveness would be "wrong," "counterproductive" and unfair to American farmers. Quite to the contrary, removing this burden...
The students urged onlookers to select Quayle from the "menu of choices" in this election year, and closed by belting out the Pledge of Allegiance.
To be sure, there are major differences between Bush and Dukakis in the ease with which they have adapted to the discipline of send-them-a-simple-message politics. It was the Vice President who dominated the airwaves and lowered the level of the debate with a series of irrelevant...
When NBC won the right to broadcast this year's Summer Games, network executives knew they were taking on diplomatic and security problems, daunting logistics and steep financial risks. Despite street protests and the odd control-room snafu, the Olympic movement has largely surmounted politics, and TV technology has done...