Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After clinching the Republican presidential nomination in mid-March, George Bush seemed to disappear from the national stage. That low profile was fine with the cautious half of his campaign team. "The public isn't focused on the election yet," declared Bush's pollster, Robert Teeter. "This is a time for unifying the party, planning the convention, developing positions and reaching out to new groups...
Most of the adolescent crack dealers' clients are children. "A sophisticated marketing analysis couldn't have come up with a more perfect drug for kids," says Robert Stutman, special agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New York. "Five years ago, a kid had to spend $80 for cocaine. Now a kid can get a vial of crack for $3 to $5. The high is instantaneous, the addiction complete." Some of the latest abusers are barely out of babyhood. Renaissance West, a Detroit drug program, is preparing to treat children as young...
...with us. Everybody is just pounding the kids all day long." Yet the older drug dealers are winning the war for the hearts and minds of too many children. When impoverished youngsters see $100 bills waved under their noses, it is hard for them to turn away. Says Dr. Robert Millman, director of drug-and-alcohol-ab use services at New York Hospital: "Just saying no doesn't cut it. The poor ask, 'What can we just...
...more to bring about this flavorful revolution than Robert Rosellini, 42, a fourth-generation restaurateur who pioneered the new cuisine 14 years ago in the Other Place -- so named to differentiate it from his family's well-known Italian restaurant, Rosellini's Four-10. "I wanted to do as the French did," says Rosellini, "and apply their careful cooking techniques and sensibilities to our fresh, native products...
...Jacqueline Kennedy). A pair of 7 1/2-ft. portraits of Britain's George III and his consort Queen Charlotte went for $40,700. Still higher prices were expected this week in the sale of Warhol's modern and contemporary art acquisitions, although aside from several Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtensteins, Robert Rauschenbergs and the like, experts found this part of his collection far less impressive than might have been expected from the Prince...