Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even with an enthusiastic student, tutoring once a week can present problems, because students forget what they have learned. "Any progress you make is diminished by next time," Powell says...
...Clearwater, Fla. The cavernous dining room of Las Fontanas can seat 500, but it is only half-filled for the senior citizen breakfast. More than half of those present are glossy yuppie types rather than silver-haired pensioners. "Where the ! ! are the seniors?" Teeley mutters. Bush's speech meanders. His claim that the medical and financial condition of senior citizens has improved evokes no response. But when Bush says, "I'm talking about stability, who'll be stable in a crisis," the audience perks...
...Columbia. At a campaign staff meeting, Atwater tells the eight others present, "First and foremost, things went great in Vermont yesterday. This will give us a good head of steam . . . What's today?" Campaign Aide Warren Tompkins: "Jeb Bush at 3:30 at the Veterans Memorial. The Governor will be in Greenville attacking Dole's textile votes." Atwater: "I'd do it in Spartanburg." Press Aide Barbara Pardue suggests that since Pat Robertson was endorsed the previous day by Cowboy Roy Rogers, the Bush campaign should seek a rival endorsement from the Lone Ranger. Laughter...
Much depends, obviously, on how the present crisis is resolved. Gorbachev has won a month's breathing space, but the Armenians may take to the streets again if he doesn't grant them some concessions. It is doubtful that Gorbachev will agree to redraw the boundaries, which would only encourage similar demands by other nationalities. Nor, if he can help it, is he likely to resort to a military crackdown that would tarnish his reform image at home and abroad. Perhaps his greatest advantage is that the Armenian people remain relatively loyal to the Soviet Union and seem to trust...
...outcome of a battle now being waged under California's law. Because one of his murals was destroyed during the remodeling of a building, Painter Tom Van Sant has filed a $5.5 million lawsuit against the bank that commissioned the work, the building's new owners and the present tenant, AT&T. Meanwhile, its future still in the balance, Tilted Arc remains in lower Manhattan after seven years, more than ever the symbol of a divisiveness that the artist could not have imagined during its creation...