Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush commercials show Dukakis riding around in a tank to prove he's soft on defense. The reality is that America under President Reagan has had the largest peacetime military buildup in history; we are stuck with stockpiles of excess, overpriced weapons systems and a Department of Defense bloated with consultants and conflict-of-interest connections with industry...
...campaign has saved about half of its federal campaign funds for late TV and radio ads, and plans to stage as large a blitz as Dukakis. So far, Bush has won the battle of the ads hands down; his latest spot effectively ridicules Dukakis' September ride in a tank...
Dukakis' trip to the Detroit suburbs brought him to within a few miles of the factory where the helmeted candidate's ride in a tank a few weeks ago--to show his support for building up conventional forces--turned into a public relations disaster. The Republicans even used film of it in a commercial to ridicule...
...tell you why I was in that tank factory," Dukakis said. "I care about those people. I care about what they're making...
Dukakis, with his weighty, even slightly oppressive air of self-possession and the small eyes that give his large head a somehow sealed look, like a tank turret even without his famous tank, applauded in an odd slow motion and dipped his left shoulder and gave a slow-motion thumbs-up sign, as if to say, "Way to go, Big Guy!" Then he came forward and started to tell the crowd about John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and about how "we can do better" and how 1960 has rolled round again. History, says Dukakis, repeats itself. And at least some...