Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Above all, we're disturbed by the lack of municipal leadership in the face of difficult issues," the letter read. "Lack of leadership has allowed conflict about development to expand to unreasonable levels which are destructive to all the parties involved...
...hearing last month, Healy said he had received this message by telephone, and read the text of it to the Council. Wolf complained last night that he had never given the Council a written copy of the message...
...prevailing Australian ethos held that "if you don't get hit, it isn't a sport," so Norman played Australian Rules football, essentially a riot with goalposts. When he was 16 his mother, a low-handicap amateur of Finnish descent, gave him two of Nicklaus' books. The boy read them and decided to give golf a try. It soon became clear that the late starter was a prodigy. Greg's father Merv recalls that he made "phenomenal progress," shooting par within 18 months of first picking up a golf club...
...with only three days to go before the vote, Bush had little momentum. Dole had picked up Alexander Haig's endorsement. (When a Bush aide later read him a Haig quote saying "I did all the damage I could," Bush stared out a window and muttered, "That's sick.") That Saturday morning, Atwater told Bush he was dead even in the polls and that only the "Straddle" ad would put him over the top. Bush looked over at pollster Bob Teeter and said, "I thought you said I was 5 or 6 up!" Teeter shrugged. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu...
...during his low-profile session with Koch, played the charming tutorial student. He allowed that no matter whom Koch endorsed, he hoped they would remain friends. Koch smiled. That was precisely what he had once told former New York Governor Hugh Carey. Gore replied he knew that, having just read Koch's memoirs. Koch smiled again. A contrarian by nature, Koch surprised his advisers by choosing Gore...