Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Geoffrey H. Simon...
Friday, Bok and the commission received nationwide attention, as educators emphasized that the report marked the first time higher education had become directly involved in a presidential election. The day of the report's release, commission officials briefed presidential candidate Sen. Paul Simon (D.-Ill.), a long-time supporter of education. Friday and other members also met with Vice President George Bush a few weeks ago, while President Bok will soon discuss the report with Democratic front-runner Michael S. Dukakis...
Dukakis was looking beyond the primaries, aswell. He arranged to pick up endorsements todayfrom former rivals Rep. Richard Gephardt ofMissori and Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois, and saidhe hoped Jackson would also work for the ticket.And he was expected to meet with aides this weekfor discussions on selecting a running mate andplanning the nominating convention...
...waited out anxious months for Ricketts' continued collaboration, while he worked on Boomtown. Mostly on sheer instinct, she went from Los Angeles to Swaziland and Zambia to search out a choir and found two. The Sibane Semaswati Singers and the New Generation, who show no traces of a Paul Simon-Graceland influence, are on five of the album's tracks, lending rhythmic backbone whenever Childs' writing tends too much toward the brittle. They also summon ironic memories from Childs' past, casting a kind of sanctified shadow across a childhood spent within the often unwelcome reach of the church...
...Democratic elimination contest, with Al Gore on the right and Paul Simon and Jackson on the left, helped Dukakis look like a moderate on most issues. Jackson reinforced the front runner's middle-of-the-road image last week by quipping that Dukakis "has liberal dreams, but at this point a conservative set of numbers to pay for his dreams." While the label "fiscal conservative" might seem opprobrious to Jackson, it is a compliment in many places, including California, the cradle of the 1970s tax revolt...