Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weight, well, she enjoys eating too much ever to be as svelte as she once was. She laments that the campaign added 13 lbs. to her 5-ft. 8-in. frame. During the Bushes' Florida postelection vacation, photos appeared of her swimming in the type of bathing suit popular with matrons in the '50s. Later, she jokingly asked photographers to cap their lenses -- "My children are complaining all over the country." When she told a reporter that her trademark pearls were $90 fakes worn to hide her wrinkles, it was a comment on the universal regret at aging...
...proponents have assembled no real constituency. "This is not a tax that is very popular back home, but what tax is?" says Representative Anthony Beilenson, a California Democrat who since 1985 has introduced two bills to raise the gasoline tax. Both have gone nowhere. The undaunted Beilenson plans to try again in 1989. "The math just calls out for taxes," he says, "and this is one of the simplest ones around." Says John Gore, a Washington representative of British Petroleum: "Nobody's pushing for a higher gas tax, but it seems to have a life...
...foundation of Reagan's political trifecta: his re-election in 1984, his personal recovery from the trough of the Iran-contra scandal and his final vindication at the polls last November. Not since the Roosevelt-Truman era has either party won three consecutive presidential elections. Not even the popular Eisenhower had the pleasure of escorting his designated heir to the Capitol...
...touchdowns, rookie Elbert ("Ickey") Woods has smoothed the black edge off several unenlightened symbols that have crept into currency in Cincinnati. Fans have taken to calling the stadium "the Jungle," and throughout the games they chant like a minstrel chorus, "Who dey think gonna beat dem Bengals?" Ickey's popular touchdown "shuffle" would be the last straw were it not so preposterously white that it somehow saves...
Bush's Lukewarm Welcome Though every new President gets something of a honeymoon with his constituency, George Bush's debut as Chief Executive will be marked more by cool realism than by warm affection. The TIME/CNN survey conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last week showed that the dearth of popular enthusiasm that dogged Campaign '88 has persisted. Now it focuses on Bush and Dan Quayle...