Word: slights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first game, the Crimson fell hard to top-seeded Navy, 13-3. Harvard's 12-7 loss to Iona in the second game was a slight improvement. Co-Captain Steve Dodge blamed the lagging offense for the slow start...
...populist approach." But only last week did the Dukakis campaign go ballistic. "George Bush wants to help people on Easy Street," Dukakis said with all the indignation he could muster. "I want to help the people on Main Street." By week's end even G.O.P. polling showed a slight shift in the Democrats' direction...
...question of which party would better keep the country "strong and prosperous," a slight Republican advantage of 6 points among registered voters in October 1987 has doubled. A smaller but more critical group in the survey -- those likely to vote next Tuesday -- split almost evenly on the visceral question of "which party most often acts in your interest": 44% choose the Democrats vs. 41% for the G.O.P. Yet when the question shifts from the parties to the candidates, Bush gets a slight plurality (42% vs. 40%) as the one who would better "look out for people like yourself." Further...
...hardly stranger than the identity of the questioner. If the administrator had been sitting before Mike Wallace or Ted Koppel, he might have been prepared for the tough, relentless probing. But his inquisitor was a precocious blond cherub of 13, Jonathan Zachary, who delivered his questions with a slight preadolescent lisp. Zachary is one of 16 youngsters featured in a new TV show called Children's Express News Magazine, an offshoot of Children's Express news service, which has been disarming public figures since it was founded for kids by New York lawyer Robert Clampitt...
Within a week, outrage over that Sept. 11 attack at St. John Bosco Church in the capital of Port-au-Prince provoked an army revolt that installed the new regime of Lieut. General Prosper Avril. The atrocity added considerably to the mystique surrounding the slight, bespectacled 35-year-old Roman Catholic priest, a socialist who is widely called a "prophet." Formerly a little- known worker among the dispossessed of his parish, Aristide is the only authentic leader who has emerged from the Haitian masses during the chaotic period since the despised dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier was overthrown...