Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME correspondents accompanied each of the four major candidates as they gave their last speeches and shook their last few hundred hands. Two White House correspondents covered Ronald Reagan's final forays: Douglas Brew traveled with the President on a five-day, 16-city swing, and Laurence Barrett was there for the huge G.O.P. wrap-up rally in San Diego...
...Peckinpaugh, is one of the last shippers still using the water route across New York. But the Peckinpaugh and its eight-man crew remain and, more important, pay their way. "This isn't an exhibit in a museum," says Kaldefoss as the gates of the harbor lock swing open to receive him and his ship. "This is a real working boat...
...takes only a few minutes. No sooner have the gates closed behind it than the Peckinpaugh begins to rise, buoyed by the water pouring into the rectangular lock enclosure until its rail towers above the head of the lock keeper. A moment later, the lock's forward gates swing open and the ship sails on, a full 16 ft. higher than it was when it entered. Ahead of it stretches the Erie Canal, as straight and flat as a highway...
...that had resounded constantly through the final week of the campaign, foreshadowing the sweep to come. For his closing swing, beginning in Boston last Thursday, Reagan gathered into his entourage most of his closest aides, including some who have been campaigning with him, in California and nationally, for 20 years. Their exultation was mixed with a note of melancholy: this was the last hurrah...
Bradley possesses quieter charm, but he has acquired remarkable respect and influence in just one Senate term. His huge re-election margin this week will intensify talk of his White House ambitions, and any upcoming tax-reform battles will swing the limelight his way. But a New York political consultant thinks the former forward for the New York Knicks is unready to run. "There's not a natural move in his body, whether it's basketball or politics," says the adviser. "He works like hell, but he needs more time." Although some Democrats are still leery of Hart...