Word: raced
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Vice President George Bush brandished a newspaper headline calling the Massachusetts budget "a mess" yesterday, as he returned to the offense in the race for the White House. Democratic nominee and underdog Michael S. Dukakis said his Republican rival was "slipping and we're surging" into the homestretch...
...five-minute back-to-back interviews on ABC's "World News Tonight," and both were asked about the nastiness that has pervaded this year's race. Bush said his campaign has been "hard-hitting, but it's been fair and it's been accurate." He said Dukakis has run his full share of negative commercials, as well...
Making the race a general election wouldrequire the approval of either two-thirds of thestudent body or three-quarters of the council...
...Michael S. Dukakis asserted yesterday that voters by the millions are giving his underdog campaign "a very strong second look" in the waning days of the race for the White House, while George Bush said Democrats were "grossly unfair" to say his advertising is tinged with racism...
...heatedly denied that his attacks on Dukakis over the Massachusetts prison furlough program had racist overtones for citing the case of Willie Horton Jr., who is Black. Horton, a convicted murderer, brutalized a Maryland couple after escaping, but Bush said his commercial "didn't have any reference to his race and no picture...