Word: traction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...premier battleground in the Midwest, the region Dukakis must dominate if he is to offset Bush's strength in the South and West. Neither candidate has gained traction in Illinois, which is why Dukakis last week made his sixth visit since July. Bush has appeared there four times. Marshaling Chicago's large black vote has been difficult for Dukakis. In Ohio Bush leads and plans at least one excursion a week to hold that advantage. Democrats outnumber Republicans in Ohio, as in neighboring Michigan. But Democratic union members ) have been slow to mobilize. Owen Beiber, president of the United Auto...
When urethane wheels, which give a smooth ride and solid traction, began to be used around 1973, the streets turned into open thrasher territory, and there were pressures brought to institutionalize the sport. Says George Powell, president of the Santa Barbara-based Powell Corp., which makes the coveted Powell-Peralta skateboards: "People who had power in the industry tried to make skating a Little League sport. But kids want skating to be their sport, not their parents'." Skateboarding languished until it burnished its outlaw image anew. Now "skaters are the punk rockers of the sport set," says Thrasher Editor Kevin...
...crippling. Jesse Jackson, who also has large negatives (41% nationally, 37% in Iowa), found that out last month when Hart's return to the contest dumped him from first place. In this fast-forward atmosphere, Paul Simon is prospering, at least for the moment, while Michael Dukakis is losing traction. Nationally, Simon rose from fourth place in December (7%) to third place this month (13%), changing places with Dukakis (from 14% down...
...cutting issues or themes or ideologies for the candidates to ride in their quest to break out of the pack. No candidate has been able to tap a generational yearning for "new ideas," the way Gary Hart did four years ago. No candidate has been able to gain traction through such themes as radically reversing the role of Big Government, as Ronald Reagan did eight years ago, or appealing to anti-Washington populism, as Jimmy Carter did before that. There is no Viet Nam War, no polarizing social or civil rights crusades that can divide the candidates and shape...
...that the seat of the owner's identity is his hip pocket. A story that begins "Though I was between marriages for several years, in a disarray that preoccupied me completely, other people continued to live and to die" sends the eye skidding down the page in search of traction...