Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convention: his move to oust Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt. Presidential nominees usually replace their party chairmen with their own people, but they generally wait until after the convention has ended. Even so, the firing of Manatt would probably not have caused much of a national stir had it not been for Mondale's choice of Bert Lance, President Carter's scandal-tainted Budget Director, to replace him. Whether they liked Manatt or not, and many did not, scores of delegates rushed to his defense. Willie Brown Jr., California's Democratic assembly speaker, sarcastically professed...
Just a few days earlier she could go practically anywhere without being recognized, much less causing a stir. But in San Francisco last week Geraldine Ferraro was a mobile media event, her every public move and utterance analyzed for substance and style. Citizens thronged around her, and politicians of every color and creed embraced her. Some women cried as they touched...
Mondale's forces have tentatively lined up a parade of some of the party's best speakers to stir up interest. Monday night, after the opening ceremonies, New York Governor Mario Cuomo will deliver the keynote address. Cuomo has a reputation for thoughtful as well as polished oratory; he is a New Deal liberal who appeals to old-fashioned family values...
...move part of their production overseas, where labor costs are often much lower than in the U.S. Many electronics firms, including Atari and Apple Computer, have set up circuit-board assembly lines in Asia. General Motors' Delco electronics division has built plants in Singapore and Mexico. Such moves stir bitter resentment among American workers. Says Edward Sesma, 33, who is being laid off this week from his job as a forklift driver at a San Diego tuna cannery: "You only have to look a few miles across the border to Mexico to notice all the companies setting up shop...
...believe that the gruesome should not also be funny. The macabre begins when Bob Glandier, a repulsively fat and wicked Twin Cities businessman, follows his runaway wife to the Lady Luck Motel in Las Vegas and murders her. In her grave back home in Minnesota, Giselle feels her spirit stir and realizes that she, like the heroine of the ballet Giselle, is destined to haunt her husband. Unfortunately, the escape from her moldering mortal remains requires the simultaneous death of her mother, who wakes up in "a kind of halfway house" to heaven. Mamma has access...