Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Referee Joel Goldman took the other officials aside in the end zone after the play and talked it over with them, asking if anyone had blown a whistle or anything. After about three minutes, he let the touchdown stand...
...When the time came to stand up for our children's health care needs, George Bush was nowhere to be found," the Democratic nominee said...
...short, Dukakis, must start arraigning Bush. As someone challenging a fairly popular status quo, the burden of proof is on him to show us the "Why?" behind the imperative, "Change." He cannot do this if he is constantly on the defensive. Put George Bush on the stand; seize the "populist initiative." This has to be Dukakis' gameplan through November or else he will lose as surely as Mondale did in '84 and Carter did in '80. Sunday night's debate will be Dukakis' best chance to get back on the offensive...
...then there is the crucial, perhaps politically lethal question of the "new" Coke debacle. New Coke was anathema to the nation's traditionalist men and women. Dukakis no longer has to shrug off the "I" label but now the "n" world as well. He will need to take a stand. Classic Coke. With sugar. With caffeine. For real Americans...
When John F. Kennedy '40 ran for the White House in 1960, a campaign to which the current candidate from Massachusetts is fond of referring, he was the first Catholic to stand a serious chance of becoming president. It was an issue that he was Catholic. Not because it should have been, or because it was strategically advantageous for his opponents to make it one, but because this nation's history of anti-Catholic sentiment mandated that...