Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Inevitably, Hart himself will become the issue. "That's the nature of being the front runner," says Paul Tully, Hart's political director. "You're going to get trashed." For the next six months, however, Hart's rivals lack a dramatic forum to get their views across; no debates, straw polls or other major media events are on the schedule. By the time Democratic voters turn their attention to presidential politics, Hart, still traveling alone, could well be within sight of the mountaintop...
...things, it raises the costs of American manufacturers who use the devices to build computers and other products, thus making them more vulnerable to foreign competition. But to U.S. trade officials, the evidence of alleged Japanese dumping and Japan's refusal to open domestic semiconductor markets were the last straw. For one thing, the ink on the semiconductor agreement was barely dry before, in Washington's view, it was being ignored. For another, that Japanese behavior seemed to U.S. officials to be part of a familiar Japanese attitude toward trade issues: delay followed by nominal agreement followed by intransigence...
After pumping iron to flush his muscles with blood, Remar slipped into a skimpy orange Speedo, donned a straw hat and strutted the beach before a line of spring-break beauties, who beamed and clapped in approval. Consensus on the flutter factor: 8 or 9, which is pretty amazing for someone who justifiably rated his hunk index at 0 a year ago. Even the college guys hooted and howled in agreement. An older fellow, Philip Finn, who was on vacation from Plains, Pa., was also awed, but confided to me, "What I'm interested in watching is whether he keeps...
Promoting mass transit in Dallas, where the car is king, is something like selling straw hats in winter. This month, though, the city's bus service began testing a ploy to lure new customers. Riders drop off their dirty laundry in the morning at a bus stop heavily used by suburban commuters. There, vans operated by Kwik Wash, a local laundry service, pick up the bundles. In the afternoon at the same stop, riders get the clothes back, clean and neatly folded. Cost: 85 cents per lb. If the program is a success, film processing and shoe repair...
Kemp's speech apparently worked: in a straw poll of 287 delegates, Kemp won 68% of the votes, in contrast to 5% for Dole and 4% each for Bush and Robertson. However, a larger poll taken this month of conservative activists around the country showed Bush marginally ahead, with Kemp and Dole virtually tied for second...