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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Caprio spoke glowingly of Dukakis. "He's part of the American dream: going from a small brick house in Brookline to the large White house on Pennsylvania Avenue. He straightened out Beacon Hill and now he's going to straighten out Capitol Hill," Caprio says...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: New Graduate Caprio Votes For Dukakis | 7/22/1988 | See Source »

...going to show 'em my behind-the-back catch." When business is done, Bush leans back and reflects on his organization. "Nobody is in absolute charge of anything, everybody works together and knows they have to get a consensus. If there's a problem between people, I straighten it out. I guess a business school | wouldn't design it that way, but my standard is: Does it work or not? It works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in the Life of a Political Machine | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...speak the language, he never gets to sleep, eat or change his suit, and he keeps stumbling into situations in which he needs all the coordination and smarts that regular habits help to ensure. Hitch at least used to give Cary Grant and James Stewart a minute to straighten their ties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man Who Knew Too Little FRANTIC | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...House vote. "Nicaragua cannot let down its guard," he warned. Rather than promoting the peace process, Ortega condemned the governments of El Salvador and Honduras for lending assistance to the contras. Rather than offering an olive branch to the opposition parties, Ortega called on them to "straighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Contra Account Runs Dry | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...father was one of Sacramento's most colorful lobbyists, a glad-handing, shoulder-rubbing wheeler-dealer. Upon his father's death in 1963, Kennedy left a lucrative San Francisco practice and returned to Sacramento to straighten out affairs and eventually take over the practice. Though the younger Kennedy kept clients like Schenley liquor distillers and the state's association of opticians, he mainly provided legal advice and drafted legislation. In testifying before the legislature on constitutional issues, Kennedy came to the attention of California Governor Ronald Reagan and his executive assistant Ed Meese. In 1973 they asked him to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Judge Next Door | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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