Word: ties
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...system and where to streamline it by eliminating entrances and exits. Today the highway features as many as ten lanes, includes eight rebuilt interchanges and can handle four times as much volume as the old roadway. Although work on the southern portion of the highway is still under way, tie-ups north of downtown are rare. Says Dodi Fromson, an antiques dealer from Southern California who visited Atlanta: "I certainly knew I wasn't in Los Angeles...
...Princeton's first Jewish president. From the outset, he began to exploit the symbolic role a university president can play. When he arrived, he invited all faculty and staff members in the university to attend his inaugural party, rather than following the traditional format of an invitation-only, black-tie event...
...Vice President wraps himself in the flag and tries to tie Dukakis in knots. -- Mixing real indignation with forced humor, Dan Quayle does his best to shift attention away from his past. -- As fires burn out of control in Yellowstone, experts debate whether the flames are friendly or not. -- A former aide to L. B. J. suggests that Johnson had fearsome episodes of paranoia...
...WORST TIE. Ronald Reagan's top-half-red, bottom-half-blue cravat...
...loved to manipulate those he suspected of despising him. He took early notice of George Bush's organizational work in the 1950s, encouraged his Goldwater phase and campaigned for him in 1964. Bush in his early oil travels lived briefly in Nixon's hometown of Whittier, Calif. But the tie with Nixon was deeper than that. The ex-Vice President of the early 1960s, while cultivating Goldwaterites, was also acquiring a covey of "walking gentlemen" to escort him back onto the public scene -- young talents like Robert Finch and William Ruckelshaus. Bush was one of this circle...