Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole's obsession. Having lost the Republican presidential nomination twice, this time Dole believes the prize is rightfully his. And he was beside himself at the prospect of Powell's snatching it away. As Dole zipped across the nation campaigning, and as he darted about in Congress, helping shape the Republican budget, he constantly asked, "Hear anything yet? Is he in? Out? Whaddaya know...
Meanwhile an unofficial Powell organization took shape. "We knew from the people who had called us who was available for what," says Armitage, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Reagan. "We weren't just sitting on our hands." Powell tapped the G.O.P.'s best organizational minds for advice, pressing experts for details about deadlines, delegate slating, issues and policy questions, staffing and fund raising. Duberstein, a former Reagan chief of staff, reached out to a score of G.O.P. political operatives, asking those who were unaffiliated not to commit to any other campaign, even inviting those who had committed...
Pulling back, Powell realized, does not mean disappearing. There is a middle ground, and that is what he will be searching for as he seeks ways to serve and shape the race he so dominated until last week. He hadn't even caught his breath before people started asking about the vice presidency. In his remarks, he seemed to rule it out, though that is almost a requirement for getting the job. And Dole's team was practically printing up bumper stickers before the day was over. Campaign manager Scott Reed called the idea of a Dole-Powell ticket "orgasmic...
...melancholy tune. In May 1990, shortly after the Hubble went into orbit, engineers and scientists realized that something was horribly wrong. The telescope simply wouldn't focus properly--the result, it turned out, of a light-gathering mirror that had been ground with exquisite precision, but in the wrong shape. After a lengthy investigation, the disaster was laid to a simple, dumb mistake: a technician had assembled a device that guided the mirror-grinding process with one bolt put on backward. The hobbled Hubble could still do some important science, but much of its research program appeared headed...
...addition of strong players such as transfer Joel Kirsch, combined with the return of its top three players, puts Harvard in seemingly invincible shape...