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...shoppers at a New Orleans hotel could pick George Bush's running mate, they'd select Oliver North, the indicted Iran-Contra figure. North received 36 percent of shoppers polled, topping Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), with 24 percent support. Running dead last is Sen. Robert Dole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ollie in; Facts out | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

What Bush needs to do to bounce back himself is select a running mate who possesses the best characteristics of the Republican party with few of its drawbacks. Thornburgh fits the description...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Sticking A Thorn (burgh) in the Democrats' Side | 8/5/1988 | See Source »

...weeks ago, I jokingly suggested in a column that Vice President George Bush select Edwin Meese III as his running mate for the Republican presidential ticket. By picking the attorney general, I wrote, Bush would put the sleaze factor squarely in his column and lock up the general election...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Sticking A Thorn (burgh) in the Democrats' Side | 8/5/1988 | See Source »

...phone companies are allowed to enter the cable business, they are expected to try to entice consumers to order such high-tech services as video telephones, home shopping and a video-on-demand service that would allow customers to select and receive movies and other programs by phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REGULATION: Stay Tuned for Dial-a-Movie | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...inside, but just right for the TV cameras) to the careful management of the schedule to ensure that key events took place in prime time. That left network journalists in a quandary. Back in the days when political conventions actually used to conduct business, debate issues and select candidates, saturation coverage had value -- if only, as network executives liked to point out, as a quadrennial civics lesson. Now that they have become four-night campaign commercials, the lesson being taught is not so much civics as show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Do Conventions Turn Off the Public? | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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