Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lenin mill strike committee yesterday wrote Deputy Prime Minister Zdzislaw Sadowski, in charge of the economy and planning, asking him to negotiate directly because management was unable to reach an agreement, said Grzegorz Surdy, a spokesman for the strikers...
Unusual among successful TV producers, Bochco has no yen to make movies. "You can reach a tremendous audience with more sophisticated stuff in TV," he says. "Movies have a different audience, and I don't have much to say to that audience." Trying to justify people's increasingly high expectations of him is challenge enough. "I never imagined the tyranny of success -- the way you have to deal with a new standard of excellence," he says. "Do you play the game not to lose? Or do you keep going for a win -- pushing it a bit and doing it better...
...most important victory to date was a product of shrewd defensive play and some luck, rather than the innovative offense he will need in the fall. Jackson started off with virtually solid backing from New York's blacks and heavy support among Hispanics. To win, he still had to reach a significant bloc of white liberals and union members. Most of all, he had to hope that Gore would peel enough white votes from Dukakis to make the race competitive. Instead, Gore flopped utterly. He became a prisoner of his chief local patron, New York City Mayor Ed Koch, whose...
...conjecture over second place rose to a roar, Jackson realized that it was a damaging distraction as well as a tacit admission that the brass ring was beyond his reach. Dukakis even kidded Jackson Friday night during their first one-on-one debate. When a questioner asked about Jackson's interest in the vice-presidential nomination, Dukakis ostentatiously stage-whispered, "Are you interested? Talk to me later." Jackson responded with a playful elbow...
...Reagan Administration has failed to reach much of the country with its economic gains, but its irresponsible fiscal policy managed to mortgage the entire country's economic strength and future. Reaganomics is not even a shining success by supply-side standards--the president has all but ignored his campaign promises to balance the budget and slash government spending. The recent period of economic growth has been tempered by the deepest recession since the Great Depression, the panic on Wall Street, the rise of the "twin towers" (the budget and trade deficits) and a trillion dollar jump in the national debt...