Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROFESSOR MOSCHITTA is best at using examples to bring theory home to students. He illustrates survival of the fittest with the evolution of tougher puff balls; he shows supply and demand with the "boom or bust beet/brussel sprout market...
...what way did Ginsburg or Gore or Claiborne Pell (a one-time, four- puff penitent) do wrong? The most obvious answer is that they willfully broke a law. True. But if what is at stake is respect for law, why the agitation about this particular law out of the thousands on the books, out of the dozens that every non-monastic citizen has broken at one time or another. If law is the issue, then the press ought to be asking public figures not "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" but "Have you ever broken the law, any law?" We could...
...THINGS during the past seven years of Reagan gave this liberal more joy than watching the president's second Supreme Court nominee--selected precisely because of his lack of a substantive past--vanish in a puff of smoke. I relished every minute as the president hoisted himself on his own anti-drug, anti-crime petard. Thanks to Reagan's demagoguery, another bitter Senate confrontation battle was avoided...
...large meetings of this sort, with the result that most of the governors were compelled to stand or to sit on tables. As the meeting progressed, panic was raging overhead on the floor . . . The feelings of those present were revealed by their habit of continually lighting cigarettes, taking a puff or two, putting them out and lighting new ones -- a practice which soon made the narrow room blue with smoke." After due deliberation, they decided to let the market run its course. By the end of that Black Tuesday, a record 16.4 million shares had changed hands, and the Times...
...suffer from a common problem: with the exception of Jesse Jackson, they are still not well known nationally. Only Jackson has developed a large body of committed supporters willing to overlook errors and discount or ignore unfavorable publicity. The others remain vulnerable to being blown away by the first puff of bad news, as happened to Hart and Biden, and could yet occur to Dukakis. The threat is all the greater for a related reason: without large issues to distinguish the candidates, media coverage has tended to focus on personality and character, tricky subjects for campaigns whose first blast...