Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues have such visceral appeal to workers as the plant-closing provision. Mike Dukakis, with his promotion of high-tech growth and labor management cooperation, has had some trouble convincing blue-collar voters that he can represent their interests. His declaration of support for the plant closing measure should go far in reasserting the Democrats' former hold on the blue-collar vote. Dukakis' support of the plant closing measure would serve notice that he represents the party of compassion, and Bush the party of privilege...
Bochco's childhood family life was close but beset by money problems. He grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the son of a violinist who once played with the NBC Symphony under Toscanini. After flirting with music, Bochco opted for playwriting at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon). The only play of his to be given a student production was a "disaster," Bochco . recalls. But he established a close circle of lifelong friends -- among them Actors Michael Tucker (Stuart Markowitz on L.A. Law) and Charles Haid (Renko on Hill Street Blues...
...most part, [Ivy League athletes] are not on the level of SMU or Texas Tech," University of Texas sportswriter Paul Hammons said. "Their priorities are a little bit different. They are the true student-athletes...
...think an Ivy League football team will ever win a national championship," said Arcadio Saenz, a center on the Texas Tech football team. "It's not a real high-caliber league. They devote more time to school than athletics...
...what about a Harvard-Texas Tech football game...