Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intent on avoiding the tag "the next Jimmy Carter," Dukakis is acting a great deal like...
...times it seems we have almost created a game for ourselves. In the back of our scheming little minds, we begin to think we can actually prevent them from happening at all. With increasingly sophisticated technology, we can begin to label disasters with the tag, "worst-ever," "strongest of the decade," etc. And then we marshal our resources to slay these larger and larger dragons...
...Loan Insurance Corporation, a Bank Board unit that insures S and L deposits, would soon run out of money if it simply shut down the troubled giants. Paying off all American Savings' F.S.L.I.C.-insured depositors would have cost an estimated $4 billion to $5 billion, twice the price tag for last week's rescue. Thus the Bank Board must find buyers for the distressed S and Ls and, in the worst cases, offer huge loan guarantees to make the transactions virtually risk free. In Gibson's deal the Bank Board agreed to provide $1.3 billion in guarantees and other assistance...
...King Gustav, "are the world's greatest athlete." To which Thorpe replied with touching simplicity, "Thanks, King." Thompson has often heard the description "world's greatest athlete" -- in fact, he has been called the greatest of all time -- but has never seriously proclaimed the title. "It's merely a tag," he says. He does feel akin to Thorpe though. "We're all his descendants -- Mathias, Rafer Johnson, Jenner, me. We've all shared something. It's passed down from one to the next. It's never anyone's property. It's only mine for the moment...
Dukakis has not put a price tag on his educational proposals or stated in detail how he would pay for them. Some of his ideas, moreover, simply do not stand up. Few businesses are likely to permit capable workers to leave their jobs in mid-career for three- to five-year teaching sabbaticals. Dukakis' plan to expand the so-called Boston Compacts and Genesis Programs -- in which wealthy individuals and businesses seek to motivate high schoolers by promising a job or college scholarship to each graduate -- is doomed to failure in areas lacking either a surplus of good jobs...