Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent decades, a dichotomy has emerged in the city between a strong downtown economy and impoverished neighborhoods, said the populist mayor. "A major reason for the dichotomy between the neighborhoods and downtown is the lack of education and basic skills necessary to compete in the information-based and high-tech economy found in Boston," he said to an audience of about 50 people...
...image on Wheaties cereal boxes inspired a generation of '50s youngsters to eat the "breakfast of champions," and despite the intervening years, Bob Richards is still inspiring. A onetime minister, he earns his living on the motivational lecture circuit (and last year ran for President on the Populist Party ticket). Now the only man ever to take the Olympic pole-vaulting gold twice (1952, 1956) is back on the track in Waco, Texas, preparing for the World Veteran Games in Rome later this year. "I'm training like I've never trained before," says Richards, who turned 59 last week...
...huge fireworks display and a parade. But the theme of the Inaugural was "We the People," and even if many in attendance wore fur coats and rode around in limousines (more than 1,000 cars were hired for the long weekend), the affair was supposed to have a distinctly populist flavor...
...Populist touches were also added in planning the Monday-afternoon parade. Governors unable to serve as grand marshals were urged to designate "citizen representatives" in their places, and more than a dozen did so. Some of the designees were already celebrities, including Astronaut Sally Ride (California), Marathoner Alberto Salazar (Oregon) and Chef Paul Prudhomme (Louisiana). Others were honored for little-noted achievements, including Arkansas Teacher of the Year Alfreeda Marshall. Altogether, final plans for the parade called for 57 floats, 43 marching bands, 37 equestrian units and one dogsled from Alaska pulled by 21 Huskies...
...Ronald Reagan, the genial former actor who came to personify populist conservative appeal, it was the final week of his final campaign. As he coasted through a five-day, 15-city concluding tour, he touted the themes and exuded the comforting confidence that have served him so well on the political stage. For Walter Mondale, the protege of Hubert Humphrey who has nourished the flame of Democratic liberalism, it was also likely to be, for those who believe the polls, his last week stumping for the nation's highest office. He, too, culminated his campaign by calling forth...