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...Reagan took obvious delight in his return to the campaign trail. "As long as I can cross the Potomac River and get out here with real people once in a while," he declared in Montgomery, "I'll keep the faith." Dusting off lines that he used on the stump in 1976 and 1980, he referred to the U.S. as "the last best hope of man on earth," and recounted the evils of Big Government as if he were still the outsider challenging the federal system. In Nashville he bristled at charges that he is reactionary, insisting, "Our goal...
...commissioner). The post is minor, but the candidate, former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 56, is anything but. After nine months of private life following his defeat by Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Party last May, Giscard has returned once again to the stump. Though the former President is taking his mini-campaign seriously, he eschews his old trappings of higher office: chauffeured limousines, bodyguards and pumped-up rallies. "Those," observes Giscard, "are simply not the local Style...
...putting on a cap, also known as a crown or jacket, the tooth is ground to a stump, then a porcelain or gold jacket prepared in the dental laboratory from a wax impression is carefully cemented on. Capping even one tooth can take three or four sittings. In bonding, there is no drilling, no anesthetic is used, and several teeth can be bonded during a single visit to the dentist. Diluted phosphoric acid is applied to the natural tooth, etching microscopic pores into the enamel. Next comes a coat of liquid plastic to seal the tooth. Then a paste composed...
...high school to highly-motivated in the Marines and academically confident at Riverside. Hamlin "turned to people and a global perspective" at Harvard. "I felt like I had made it, that it was all over," he says. "It wasn't." But he knew "they weren't going to stump me on any exam or catch me off guard," and he proceeded to "cultivate and cash in on contacts and connections." He sums up his philosophy about the University by declaring: "If you want Harvard to take care of you, you have to seek it out. You have...
...would seek no new separatist initiative during his second term. Instead, the personable former TV newsman shrewdly concentrated on his administration's corruption-free record, its successful reforms in agricultural and consumer policies and its plans for the province's economic development. His folksy, fast-talking style on the stump also provided an effective contrast to Liberal Ryan's relatively restrained and cerebral campaign discourses on the benefits of closer economic ties with the federal government in Ottawa...