Word: showing
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Bush commercials show Dukakis riding around in a tank to prove he's soft on defense. The reality is that America under President Reagan has had the largest peacetime military buildup in history; we are stuck with stockpiles of excess, overpriced weapons systems and a Department of Defense bloated with consultants and conflict-of-interest connections with industry...
Bush is similarly hypocritical on the issue of law and order. His commercials show criminals going out a revolving door to prove Dukakis is soft on crime. Yet during Bush's tenure as head of Reagan's task force on drug enforcement, drug imports and drug dealing violence have dramatically increased. That's soft on crime...
...Favorite Son did no such thing. It was mostly melodrama. By overreacting to the show, Republicans gave the show more publicity than it otherwise would have warranted and betrayed a chilling reverence for the power of the little blue screen...
...trying to court the Reagan Democrats, Dukakis has largely ignored and alienated Black voters. Polls show twice as many Blacks will vote for Bush as for Reagan, and most will stay home...
James Amspacher, editor-in-chief of The Daily Campus, said his organization still plans to go ahead with its own evaluation guide, "just to show that...