Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dole camp after New Hampshire, the Bush team had refused to crumble into chaos following the Iowa setback. After a few days of dejection, the Vice President's men mapped out a new strategy and brought in ace Speechwriter Peggy Noonan, a Reagan favorite, to add a human touch to Bush's bland rhetoric. Bush adopted a man-of-the-people campaign style, touring a shopping mall and a lumberyard, dining at a truck stop and a McDonald...
...contrast, Bush has solicited and taken advice from virtually the same team for seven years. He stays in touch with most of the politicos he's met and worked with. Unlike many politicians, Bush actually cultivates close personal friendships. He spends much time writing notes and making phone calls. He is, in a word, nice...
...statehouse last week, the afternoon of the New Hampshire primary, Dukakis followed the early returns that showed him winning by 20 points. The Governor's pleasure was evident but utterly under control. In shirtsleeves, leaning back in his swivel chair, Dukakis looked fit, his face unlined, a touch of red in his cheeks. Senator Ted Kennedy called to congratulate him. Dukakis told Kennedy he hoped his nephew Congressman Joe Kennedy Jr., of whom he is fond, would campaign for him in South Dakota. Then former Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins was waiting to talk to him. She would endorse...
...specialty, had finished second at Sarajevo four years ago. Now, starting from the unfavorable No. 1 position, which meant having to carve tracks through the remains of a light overnight snowfall, he showed the world a run -- 2 min. .14 sec. -- that none of the next dozen racers could touch. Italy's 6-ft. 4-in. Michael Mair, a downhill winner earlier in the season, skidded off the course. Girardelli and West Germany's Markus Wasmeier, two superb all-event men, skied with insufficient fury and finished sixth and ninth...
...fans adopted a Canadian. She was Karen ("No Mercy") Percy -- or so one Calgary sportswriter insisted -- a blond 21-year- old who stands a solid eleventh in World Cup rankings. She ran early and fast through stiff, changeable wind in the downhill. Among the stars who failed to touch her time were the glamorous Swiss rivals Maria Walliser, who finished fourth, and Michela Figini, Sarajevo's downhill winner, an ignominious ninth...