Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush's top advisers predict -- strictly off the record and perhaps in a sly effort to lower expectations -- that he will. But in the past two months, Dukakis' once commanding lead in the California polls has disappeared, shrinking from 16 points to a statistically meaningless 1 point. One reason: several of the social issues Bush has been hammering on (opposition to new taxes and gun control, approval of the death penalty) have already been endorsed overwhelmingly by California voters in recent ballot initiatives. Republicans have greatly increased their registration and popularity over the past ten years. Polls show that...
...then, might Bush blow it? One reason is personality. Decisive though the Vice President has appeared since the Republican Convention, Bush backers fear a relapse into the reedy-voiced, diffident aristocrat who thoroughly turned off Californians not long ago. Says Sal Russo, a Sacramento-based Republican consultant: "This state is not hospitable to a patrician candidate, and it's a potential problem having two blue bloods on the ticket." Adds a prominent Republican in the Central Valley: "The preppie image doesn't sell very well around here. Unfortunately, the reason Bush has a preppie image is that...
...everyone is delighted by the reform. For grocers, who cash 3.5 billion checks a year, it will require some irksome adjustments. Reason: the regulations impose new, standardized endorsement procedures to help speed up the process of moving checks to their appropriate banks. For example, endorsements must be confined to the top 1 1/2-in. portion on the back of the check. Many supermarket managers will have to buy new equipment to stamp precise endorsements on the checks and train their staff how to use the new system...
...good reason, since the idea is crazy. Even Goldman recognizes that the discipline accepted by the Beatles proved liberating. With the album Rubber Soul, he writes, "Lennon was employing the new medium of pop song like a serious artist." In fact, when Lennon could harness his wit and rage within commercial demands, he simply blew away restraints and claimed new territory for the popular imagination. What, then, compelled him to destroy the most successful performing group on earth? Why did he consign his fate to a woman who would later ask friends, "How can that oaf be so successful when...
...Detroit Tigers baseball team lost an important asset last week when its newly hired outfielder, Fred Lynn, failed to qualify for postseason play. Reason: he got caught in a traffic jam. Lynn was playing in Anaheim, Calif., for the Baltimore Orioles when he accepted Detroit's offer late Wednesday afternoon. But to qualify for the playoffs under league rules, he had to join the team, then in Chicago, by midnight. The Tigers chartered a jet for Lynn at Ontario (Calif.) International Airport, but rush-hour congestion reportedly stretched his 35-minute drive to an hour and 15 minutes. That proved...