Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close? One team could tell what the otherwas chewing...
Simon has been slow to adopt the maxims his chief opponents have deployed so effectively with voters in New Hampshire and lowa: cardinal rules like, "don't tell people you will raise their taxes even if it is for the nation's good," "say you'll protect American products, even though you know it will lead to a trade war," and most importantly, "don't get too emotional about America's shortcomings because no one wants to here it, anyway." The couched language and disingenuous strategizing of Simon's prime foes, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Missouri Rep. Richard...
...conventions,PBS were to run a four-week series of interviewswith each of the presidential andvice-presidential nominees. Whether or not Americaviews this media expert as a bona fide pundit,that may be enough to catapult him back into theranks of Who's Who. And as any amateurpolitician can tell you, a public televisionaudience isn't NBC, but it's certainly better thana half-filled lecture hall
Within 24 hours, Delvalle was under virtual house arrest. His phone lines were cut, and police appeared on the street when he lived. By Saturday morning an officer who arrived to tell Delvalle to leave the country found that he had fled. Later Delvalle claimed in a phone interview that he was still in Panama and vowed to fight...
Perhaps. But some experts fear that the U.S. may press too hard on Panama and create sympathy for Noriega at home. "There's no pragmatism in any of this," says a former Panamanian official. "Of course Noriega needs to go. But, really, to have Administration officials tell reporters this and then indict him makes it impossible for him to step aside." The ex-official adds that whatever other qualities Noriega may possess, the Panamanian strongman has no end of stubborn pride...