Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Commencement week is also a busy time for local hotels, but it's too late now to make reservations--most hotels start getting reservations four years in advance and are booked solid months before graduation...
...conventional wisdom that it may no longer be necessary to begin campaigning years before the nomination. In the relentless glare of the media age, overexposure can be more devastating than an undernourished organization, and the public can grow disenchanted with campaigners it knows too well. A candidate with a solid background and strong base (New York, say) might be able to patrol the sidelines--at least until near the end of 1987--and gain as a presence through his absence. With a ramshackle organization, Gary Hart upset Walter Mondale in New Hampshire. Cuomo, his advisers hope, could do the same...
...give the people an education so they may consciously vote for their leader, not as they did in the past. When we have freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free unions and a real civil service, we will hold elections, starting with sheriff. If the base is not solid, you cannot build on it." His philosophy of slow, sure progress in restoring Haiti's institutions may not be a crowd pleaser, but if consistently and fairly applied, it may be just the medicine that the ailing country needs...
Despite his wariness of the Soviets, Kampelman maintains a solid working relationship with his counterpart, Victor Karpov. In the long, tortuous process of arms negotiations, he is careful to remain receptive to the Kremlin's more serious overtures without giving ground on the American side. "What they respect is power," says Kampelman. "The extent to which their adversary has power of its own adds an element of dignity to the argument of the adversary." Reagan has given his negotiator a relatively free hand in the talks. Assisted by a team of representatives from the departments of State and Defense...
Olajuwon succeeded in holding back the swinging Sampson before the 7-ft., 4-in. center could land a solid right hook...