Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rhetoric would be unseemly at such a high-tone forum. Two of the technocratic moderates in the race, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., were largely content to enhance their images of quiet competence. That void left Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Illinois Senator Paul Simon and former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt in charge of providing charisma, a task akin to asking Comedian Jay Leno to dance Swan Lake...
...seem ludicrous seven months before the Iowa caucuses. But politics craves winners and losers, regardless of evidence. That explains the headlines generated by a debate focus group of 87 Iowa Democrats conducted by Hickman-Maslin, a Democratic polling firm unaffiliated with any presidential campaign. Their verdict: Dukakis, Gephardt and Simon gained ground, while Babbitt lost long yardage. Of course, such a tiny and far from representative sample is hardly conclusive. But in the game of momentum this Iowa focus group may turn out to have more political weight than its statistical worth...
...first constitutional landmark dates back to King John's acceptance at Runnymede in 1215 of Magna Carta, which established limits on the power of the monarch. The House of Commons, which together with the House of Lords makes up Parliament, has its origins in Simon de Montfort's first gathering of commoners in 1265. Another prominent date is 1689, when Parliament passed a Bill of Rights guaranteeing freedom of elections and parliamentary debate...
...Front Runner Jesse Jackson charged last week that the Times had not distinguished between what is public and what is private. Earlier, a Jackson aide had attempted to rally fellow Democratic candidates to reject the Times's request. But when former Governor Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Illinois Senator Paul Simon and Missouri Representative Richard Gephardt said they would cooperate with the paper, the plan was dropped...
...good fortunes this year were three partners of the San Francisco- and Manhattan-based investment firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Masters of the so-called leveraged buyout, Jerome Kohlberg, 62, Henry Kravis, 43, and George Roberts, 44, each earned $50 million. Neck and neck were former Treasury Secretary William Simon, 59, chairman of Wesray Capital in Morristown, N.J., an investment firm, and Raymond Chambers, 44, president of that company. They pulled down an estimated $45 million to $50 million each...