Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hart in the 1984 primaries are in many cases the 18-year-olds who rang doorbells for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 and the 22-year-olds who cast their ballots for George McGovern in 1972. They are still skeptical of Establishment candidates and political bosses. But they have shed idealism for pragmatism, and liberalism for moderation. Many Yumpies seem more interested in making money for themselves than in redistributing it to the poor. "They tend to be entrepreneurial," says Tom Kiley, a political consultant in Boston. Notes Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "They see that the liberals and conservatives haven...
Most Americans are free to start over. They can leave home, shed old personas, lose their pasts, become the people they want to be. Rarely must they justify or explain. Presidential candidates are not so fortunate. Their lives are retraced in unforgiving detail by opponents and reporters. For Gary Hart, the scrutiny is becoming particularly intense. Says Frank Mankiewicz, who with Hart managed the 1972 George McGovern campaign: "There are more investigative reporters looking into Gary Hart's background than Watergate...
...complete package) was highlighted by a dinner dance, where Prince Rainier, 60, Princess Caroline, 27, Princess Stephanie, 19, and Prince Albert, 25, joined by the President and Nancy Reagan, led the 600-person guest list. Princess Caroline, who took a turn on the dance floor with the President, shed a tear when he toasted her mother. Princess Grace, said Reagan, "possessed not only an outward beauty but an inward character, sincerity, strength of purpose and loving-kindness." When the last of the revelers had jetted and li-moed home, more than $1 million had been raised for the foundation...
...time, Hart has no choice but to win his votes one by one in New Hampshire. He tries to shake 1,000 hands a day at work places and shopping centers, and his volunteers have canvassed 60,000 homes, more than any other campaign. Hart has begun to shed his personal reserve and warm to the task. After watching him leap up from his lunch to table-hop at Newick's restaurant in Newington, N.H., Hart's state coordinator, Jeanne Shaheen, smiled, "A month ago, we'd have to have twisted his arm before...
Says a young man in Hallousiyeh: "If the Israelis don't leave, we will shed our blood to get them out. Even the children of the village have come to hate them." Following the bombing of the Israeli military headquarters in Tyre on Nov. 4, a Shi'ite terrorist action in which 61 people were killed, the Israelis instituted stringent security precautions at the Awali River bridge. The result has been a horrendous traffic bottleneck at the bridge. Trucks, many of them carrying consumer goods between Sidon and Beirut, have sometimes had to wait two days or longer...