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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GORE. Edging rightward in pursuit of Sam Nunn fans, he showed a solid grasp of arms control and diplomacy. Hart is his equal, but few are listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pre-Primary Report | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...discounts are both breathtakingly huge. The suburban Dallas emporium belongs to a booming category of retail store called the hypermarket. "I've never seen so much under one roof," says Martha Mason, a homemaker visiting Hypermart USA. "I could spend days in here." Sam Walton certainly hopes so. The founder and chairman of booming Wal-Mart discount stores opened his first Hypermart USA last December as a joint venture with the Cullum retail chain. Last week he opened a second in Topeka. "It's a test," says Walton, whose 1,114 Wal-Marts are generally a third the size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come Malls Without Walls | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...guest with not one, not two but three ceremonial expressions of welcome, a bouquet of courtesy that is positively Japanese: "Mr. Secretary, thank you for being here . . . Delighted you could come . . . a pleasure to have you . . ." One expects it, waits for it. ABC-TV's White House correspondent Sam Donaldson forever shouts at the President above the noise of the waiting helicopter, and the President forever turns and cups his hand quizzically. The ceremony almost never yields any news, only the ritual impression that l) Donaldson is a loud, obnoxious reporter; and 2) the President is a nice guy with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Kingdom of Television | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...Armed Services Committee, Chairman Sam Nunn of Georgia went further: he invited the Soviet Union to speak out if it disagrees with the Administration's presentation. "If the Soviets remain silent on points of interpretation presented by the Executive Branch," said Nunn, "then I believe that the Senate . . . can reasonably believe and contend that that silence connotes assent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missiles: INF Faces a Final Hurdle | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Nunn's tentative endorsement. Georgia Senator Sam Nunn has decided to endorse fellow Southerner Albert Gore right after the Iowa caucuses -- unless Richard Gephardt wins that contest. In that event, Nunn will wait and watch for a while. Gephardt, who is from Missouri, has support among moderates in the South and could be Gore's greatest rival on Super Tuesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Grapevine 1986 | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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