Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue-oriented voters, it may be unfortunate that the debate seemed to turn on the 1988 versions of Reagan's famous "there you go again" quip. But here the blame rests equally with both candidates, who consciously refrained from raising new issues and arguments before the more than 62 million TV viewers. Despite a barrage of questions on the deficit, Bush and Dukakis clung to the fig leaf provided by their dubious budget nostrums. The Vice President escaped serious challenge on his implausible insistence that his so-called flexible freeze of 4% budget growth can accommodate new domestic proposals like...
Forget the downtown department store and the suburban shopping mall. Leave the catalogs on the coffee table and turn off the video-shopping channel. Hop into the car with a full bandolier of credit cards and head for the outback. Tucked away in Monterey, Calif.; Boaz, Ala.; Rockford, Mich.; Freeport, Me.; and a dozen odd small towns in between, scores of manufacturers' outlet stores are doing a land-office business by offering 25% to 70% savings. Along with the bargains, urban consumers enjoy a day in the country and engage in a venerable American dream -- the inalienable right to pursue...
...little Flemington (pop. 4,000), once a center of iron foundries, the wave is of tidal proportions. The town's history as a bargain haven goes back to the turn of the century. Its success, though, really took off in 1921, when the Flemington Fur Co. opened its doors to sell the fur coats it made there.The outlet became an East Coast shopping mecca. These days it sells a $10,500 mink coat for a mere $7,895. Furs were not enough to save Flemington. In the mid-1970s, when the town was losing business to shopping malls...
...cases last term in which the court split 5 to 4, Kennedy voted with a conservative majority eight times, including the stunning decision to reconsider Runyon. Says University of Virginia government professor David O'Brien, a court specialist: "I sense clearly that the court will make a strong turn to the right in the area of social discrimination." If so, the ideological legacy of Ronald Reagan may last well into the 21st century...
...dishonest. Only eight years ago, the election was marred by loose, guilt- by-association swipes involving the Ku Klux Klan. The farther back you look, the worse it gets. In the Democratic-Republican propaganda of 1800, the Federalists were alleged to be cryptoroyalists and Anglomaniacs; the Federalists, in their turn, painted their opposite numbers as Jacobins, who lusted to pick pockets and rape daughters. Talk about the "L" word...