Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feinstein had agreed to pose for TIME as a possible Vice President and was just about to leave her Pacific Heights home for a nearby studio when the phone rang. She later recalled her conversation with Mondale: "He said, 'I want to tell you that I think you are a star. I want to tell you that you're on the top of the media's list, but I've decided to go another way and I hope you will trust me.' " Feinstein called off the photo session and went on calmly to attend a black-tie dinner. When reporters...
...first year, when she finally did enter a foreign policy debate-over Turkish intervention in Cyprus-it was chiefly to please a large Greek constituency back in Astoria, Queens. Caught up in the moment, she cried, "We've got to get those Turkeys out!" As her words rang through the House chamber, she dissolved in nervous giggles and had to ask the chair for an extension of time to compose herself and go on. With an eye to conservatives at home, she has consistently opposed large cuts in the military. When Carter favored a mobile MX missile, she voted...
...Francisco simultaneously, helped Mayor Dianne Feinstein, 51, lead a city wide festival marking the official reopening of the system. "One of the great treats in life is to ride on a cable car," burbled Bennett. "The whole world has been waiting for this day." As church bells rang and thousands of balloons bobbed in the wind, Bennett obligingly belted out his trademark song over and over for swooning bystanders. Doesn't he get a little bit tired of repeating the same lyrics? Retorts the eternal romantic: "Do you ever get tired of making love?" -By Guy D. Garcia
...Hsing Rang College...
...year-olds who are voting for Hart in the 1984 primaries are in many cases the 18-year-olds who rang doorbells for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 and the 22-year-olds who cast their ballots for George McGovern in 1972. They are still skeptical of Establishment candidates and political bosses. But they have shed idealism for pragmatism, and liberalism for moderation. Many Yumpies seem more interested in making money for themselves than in redistributing it to the poor. "They tend to be entrepreneurial," says Tom Kiley, a political consultant in Boston. Notes Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "They see that...