Word: spoilsport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vice President's men were quick to cluck over the Bush victory -- and to turn up the heat in an effort to rattle their opponent further. "Dole loves to dish it out," said Atwater, "but if something happens to him, he gets this spoilsport attitude." Appearing on television's MacNeil-Lehrer Report, Atwater bragged about the Bush-Sununu grass-roots strategy and said, "If Senator Dole would try to do the same thing, instead of all this bellyaching, he's probably going to do a lot better." Taking the bait, Bill Brock later growled, "Lee Atwater ought to grow...
...economic conference in Tokyo last week, their assessments of the meeting went beyond the typical rote claims of harmony. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone declared that the conference "reaffirmed mutual understanding and trust between us." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher uttered a hearty "mission accomplished." Even that perennial summit spoilsport, French President Francois Mitterrand, exulted that the meeting was "the most relaxed" he had experienced. Said the most triumphant of the summiteers, Ronald Reagan: "It's no exaggeration to describe the Tokyo summit as the most successful of the six that I have attended...
...downtown Des Moines, renting two full floors for offices. ABC crammed itself into a Holiday Inn banquet room. As usual, the networks raced ahead of the results: ABC, the last to predict Mondale's landslide, did so 15 minutes after voting began. The early projections were considered spoilsport at best, electoral meddling at worst. Colorado Democrat Timothy Wirth, chairman of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, urged the networks to show more restraint and invited them to testify before his panel this week...
...that her candidacy was likely to draw white votes away from Republican Candidate Bernard Epton and ensure the election of Washington. Last week, with key campaign aides quitting and former Supporter Ted Kennedy stumping for Washington, Byrne, belatedly realizing she could not win, abruptly withdrew from the race. Her spoilsport campaign had gone nowhere...
...Some spoilsport journalists suggested that Columbia was showing all the symptoms of a used car. Not so, replied Houston Flight Director Neil Hutchinson, adding, "If it's acting like a used car, I'd like to own it." In fact, Columbia's glitches, with the exception of the radio breakdown, were all relatively minor, and it was unfortunate that they obscured the mission's true importance. By making a record-breaking third voyage into space, Columbia was providing stunning proof of NASA's basic vision: that the U.S. could build and operate a spacecraft capable...