Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GEPHARDT offers specific solutions to our nation's problems. Unlike other candidates who advocate big spending and, at the same time, call for a balanced budget, Gephardt has proposed an oil import fee as a means of rasing revenue. Although it is not popular in New England, he has continued to advocate it as sound economic policy, as well as sound energy policy...
...Michael S. Dukakis was the most popular Democratic candidate, drawing support from 39 percent of the 119 registered Democrats who plan to vote. Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) led the Republican candidates with half of the 38 GOP members who plan to vote choosing...
...while Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis put the finishing touches on his Southern campaign this weekend, most of his rivals for the Democratic nomination chose to cut their losses by avoiding the popular governor's own state...
...frequent flyers are business travelers who earn their mileage points going to such relatively unpopular destinations as Boise and Buffalo. When the time comes to redeem their bonuses, they go to Hawaii, Florida or the Caribbean. Some analysts estimate that up to 33% of the seats on some airlines' popular routes are taken by passengers who are flying free...
Many attacks go far beyond a beating. In New York City's West Village last summer, a young tough wielding a golf club from a speeding car knocked a gay man unconscious, leaving him permanently brain damaged. In Fort Lauderdale, a pickup truck swerved onto the sidewalk outside a popular gay bar, killing a 33-year-old man. Randy Schell, a client advocate at Community United Against Violence, a San Francisco social-service agency, reports cases of men being beaten with logging chains and sliced with razors. "Anything you could imagine being used to desecrate another human being has been...