Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the skiers, the trails at Stratton are exceptionally well-groomed, and Liftline was no exception. The snow was carefully packed to provide a great packed-powder surface. Even on days when other mountains are icy, Stratton's trail groomers are able to scrape up a frozen granular surface...
...first, and the city they select will be obliged to withdraw its offer to the Democrats.) With spouses and party hangers-on, the Democratic delegation often swells to considerably more than 100. Deficit-ridden New Orleans had to ask the Democrats to delay their visit because it could not scrape together the funds to provide the necessary lavish entertainment for the Democratic horde. "Twenty Republicans came down and got their work done," groused a New Orleans official. "The Democrats want to send down 120 people and party for three days...
Union Dorms Senior Advisor Thomas Hassan, who was a "blue collar kid at Brown," says when he talks to students from low-income backgrounds he is forced to recall his own "experience at a school that was expensive, worrying that my parents had to scrape together the money and not wanting to disappoint them--wanting to do well, finding it hard to admit defeat...
Each time the President gets into a political scrape, he retreats to the White House, Camp David or California, regroups his forces, remakes his political image and then feeds a calculated propaganda attack to the press, which eats it up. The crisis is dismantled in this manner...
This damage control method is the teflon of our "teflon President." Reagan has played the same game in every major political scrape throughout his Administration. He used it after the breakdown of the Reykjavik summit, after the Libyan disinformation scandal and during the coming to power of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. Reagan has applied this method to the Iran crisis in an effort to regain his stature. But this time the damage control has failed. The media has so far sustained its onslaught...