Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rambo, but Michael Dukakis, clad in an Army helmet and clutching a machine gun, tried to look like the militarist he isn't at a General Dynamics plant outside Detroit last week. It was difficult to tell whether the queasy expression came from his bumpy ride in an M1 tank or his disdain for hokey photo ops. But he was ready to sacrifice dignity in the service of his theme. The message: Dukakis is tough on defense...
...often been reduced to its military dimension. Last week they were back at it, carping over the relative merits of the Stealth bomber and the MX. Bush reiterated his charge that Dukakis was soft on defense. In response, Dukakis doffed a helmet and rode in an M1 tank. In a speech in Chicago, Dukakis conveyed a conservative caution about Gorbachev's reforms and said the U.S. should be prepared to use economic incentives to induce less Soviet repression and international mischief making...
...Institute was conceived more than one year ago by SPH Dean Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg '67, who says it will create an organized forum to bring together specialists on all aspects of the disease and establish a think tank for experimentation and policy making...
Aggressive non-partisanship in this most political of election years is a difficult task for a school of government, but Kennedy School professors and administrators, schooled in the art of public relations, seem to be trying their hardest to dispel rumors that the Duke has his own think-tank on the Charles...
...been an attempt to counter the I'm-more-of-a-populist attacks Bush has levelled against him. This includes everything from trying to list all the other states that have prison furlough systems ("I'm not outside the American political mainstream") to riding around in an M-1 tank...