Word: ticket
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Bush and his advisers began painting Dukakis as soft on defense and big on social spending, a return ticket to high inflation and interest rates. "Dukakis is just a Northern-fried Jimmy Carter," said Bush Campaign Manager Lee Atwater. Reason for the assaults: "Dukakis is starting to emerge as a stature candidate, slightly bigger than life," explained a Bush aide. "That has to be nipped. It's much easier to shape opinion about a candidate when he's still relatively unknown...
Nunn does nothing to balance the ticket in terms of charisma. Aggressively bland and boring, he insists on speaking his paragraphs in a Mister Rogers monotone. Nunn's only touch of vanity is the careful left-to-right sweep of hair to cover his expansionary bald spot...
...many Democratic Party leaders, Michael Dukakis and Sam Nunn would make such a perfect pair in the fall election that the big question has become not whether Dukakis will offer the taciturn Georgia Senator the second spot on the ticket but whether Nunn will accept it. Some have even suggested a two-for- Nunn scheme: If being a heartbeat from the presidency and riding Air Force Two are not enough, how about throwing in the Defense Department or the National Security Adviser's job? Now there are signs that Nunn might be more interested than his poker face would suggest...
...Nunn balances the ticket geographically and militarily, he might knock it out of alignment domestically. Nunn was one of 13 Senators who opposed bringing up legislation in 1975 to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act, although he voted for a bill in the end. In 1982 Nunn voted to renew the act, but he supported an amendment by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond to limit its extension to 15 rather than 25 years. Nunn voted against ending a filibuster holding up a fair-housing bill in 1980, opposed a 1978 move to extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights...
Dough Brown's overtime goal in the Boston Garden Wednesday brought the Devils one step closer to ripping up the Bruins' ticket to the Stanley Cup. Waiting in the background as a prospective opponent in the finals for the "Mouseketeers" are the Edmonton Oilers. And Gretzky...