Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis and his staff nonetheless tend to see themselves in overly high- minded terms, as the innocent victims of sound-bite sabotage. Campaign chairman Brountas pointedly walked to the back of the Dukakis plane last week to give ABC newsman Sam Donaldson a copy of a Doonesbury cartoon that lampooned Bush aide Atwater as dictating the message of the day to a network news director. Similarly, Estrich, who kept her title in the Dukakis campaign while yielding to Sasso responsibility for shaping the campaign's message, claims, "The campaign staff is far more important on the Republican side, where...
...truth, the two campaign staffs, like rival armies, increasingly tend to resemble each other. Every weekday morning, Sasso in Boston and Baker in Washington preside over strategy meetings designed to fine-tune that day's thematics. The longer-range questions at both meetings are similar: Where will the candidate go next? What will he say? What is the target group of voters? What do the polls say? Which states warrant a heavier advertising budget...
...prime-time price of $330,000 a spot, officials thought they were being cautious in projecting a rating of 21.2, meaning an audience of just over a fifth of U.S. households. Instead, prime-time ratings through the first six days averaged just 16.7. NBC officials noted that Olympics ratings tend to improve as the Games go on; the network's coverage gradually has. They said the Seoul venture would still show a profit, if less than the expected $65 million. Said NBC Sports president Arthur Watson, in offering customary "make good" spots to buyers of commercial time: "We have...
...that they are truly stirred by the 60's anthem. It's one of the few moments when it seems there was something these people really believed in, something they fought for. We also see that their dream had as much to do with a utopian (what we now tend to disparage as "touchyfeely") vision of how people would treat each other as it did with social change. We understand then that the '60s promised to a generation that youth and idealism could really make a difference...
...referendum's opponents said the law is necessary to insure that the state uses properly skilled laborers. If the law is repealed, the state would be able to pay less than union rates and would tend to hire non-union--and less expensive--labor...