Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CYNICS would say that the school's high-profile scholars and administrators have given up on the Dukakis campaign. When queried now about the Massachusetts governor, school officials invariably respond by saying that President Reagan brought in more Kennedy School professors than any of his Democratic predecessors...
...even more importantly, the Bush strategy is forcing Dukakis to respond and react rather than put forth his own initiatives. In this way, Bush has pushed Dukakis onto political low ground and kept him there by tying him to an allegation too dangerous to be left unanswered: same candidate, new face...
...went for the better part of three years. Bennett would make some outlandish or not-so-outlandish charge, the colleges would respond as a chorus, in harmony, against these charges. If nothing else, these made good fodder for journalists covering the normally dry education beat, as headlines like "Bennett Attacks...", and "Colleges Respond to Bennett Charges" became common on the front pages of America's major newspapers...
...tests. And as for the awesome women athletes, well, are they really women at all? Skeptics recall that Tamara and Irina Press, the hulking Soviet sisters who won five Olympic gold medals in the 1960s, dropped from international competition after sex tests were introduced. In this mistrustful vision, athletes respond to the carrots of cushy jobs, fancy apartments and Western consumer goods, coupled with a fearsome stick if performance falters: the threat of losing all privileges, perhaps even of being banished to Siberia...
Back in the innocent days of the early primaries, before neighborhood meetings were supplanted by motorcades and media events, Dukakis and Bush had to respond to questions from ordinary citizens. These days, such real-life , voters are useful only as scenic backdrops. That is why it was striking on Labor Day morning when Dukakis tried to hold an informal town meeting with a few dozen voters in South Philadelphia. The questions on schools and the environment were serious, but so was the jeering from 100 antiabortion protesters, who turned a picturesque event into near chaos. The moral: a Dukakis aide...