Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fish fly from the rafters and chickens run loose on the ice. Just when you think you've seen it all, the Cornell fans will shock you with new flying objects...
...that qualifies you to be President. I think there are many aspects of the campaign that have been run well, but there are some that haven't. But one of the great strengths of the campaign has been a field organization that I think is better than I've seen in a long time and certainly far superior to the other side's. We have not been as good as we should have been in developing media and that kind of thing, and I think we acknowledge that. I mean, we're doing better...
Some psychologists argue that politicians whose families have received help with their problems may be better able to serve the public. But they acknowledge that even family counseling is likely to be seen as a sign of weakness. Psychologist Charles Figley, who treats state and local officials in Indiana, helps ease the way for them by inviting them to his home, disguising their counseling sessions as dinner parties. Better, he says, to call it "educational consultation." At least, that is, until voters wise up and begin to prefer flesh-and-blood First Families to all those smiling, we've-nothing...
Takeover wars have raged on and off for decades, but corporate America has never seen anything quite like the battle for RJR Nabisco. The combatants are brandishing tens of billions of dollars and mobilizing squadrons of bankers and lawyers on a scale previously unimagined. On one side is the firm of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, until now the undisputed master of the leveraged buyout. On the other is an alliance between a group of RJR Nabisco executives and Shearson Lehman Hutton, an old-line investment firm determined to break KKR's dominance of the hottest, most lucrative business on Wall Street...
...history is any gauge, this could turn out to be one of the most important choices of the waning years of this century, despite the parlous state of the campaign. Never before have voters 40 and younger seen a ballot without the name of the incumbent President. Elections like 1988 that are not automatic referendums on the past presidential term tend to be political watersheds. The choice of John Kennedy in 1960 ushered in a brief but turbulent Democratic revival marked by domestic idealism, the triumph of the civil rights movement and then the agony of Viet Nam. Richard Nixon...