Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deferred to Mondale's opposition to tuition tax credits for parents of private-school students. She is from Mondale briefing books to prepare for the detailed policy questions that await her, and could rattle her. Congresswoman Ferraro," says Sasso, sounding somewhere between hopeful and confident, "is a quick learner." - By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Sam Allis with Mondale and Richard Hornik with Ferraro...
Jeffrey M. Tinkham of Belmont was also impressed with the soccer. "They're so controlled," he said of the Norwegian team yesterday. "Every pass is on their foot, and so quick. I love being here." He added that he was rooting for the Norwegians, although he said he would be surprised if France didn't win the gold...
Tracking polls are quick surveys of small numbers of voters who have been polled previously that attempt to ascertain whether news events have changed their minds. Whether the results that so elated Mondale's staff will later be supported by more comprehensive polls and whether the phenomenon will last are open to question. Nonetheless, on the strength of the new data and the enthusiasm over the Ferraro candidacy, Mondale's planners now say they will make a much more extensive effort than originally intended in the South. At a meeting arranged by Lance between Ferraro and Southern Governors...
...gold in a sport his countrymen forget about between Olympics. Kevin Winter is a cheerful, wide fellow, 5 ft. 10½ in. tall and 198 Ibs. heavy, tops, who figures that he has an excellent chance for gold in the 90-kg weight-lifting event. Winter is quick to add that although he was the nation's best lifter, pound for pound, at the May trials in Las Vegas, he would not be a medal prospect if the Soviet-bloc countries were coming. "Maybe a few American medals will help revive interest in the sport...
...greenmail. In a greenmail ploy, an investor buys enough stock in a company to pose a takeover threat in hopes that the firm's officers will buy him out at a premium. Disney paid $297.4 million in June for shares held by Financier Saul Steinberg, who made a quick $32 million profit. St. Regis has been greenmailed twice, first by Sir James Goldsmith, the British industrialist, and then by Loews Corp., the hotel and movie-theater company...