Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis chose a native Texan, say Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, as his running mate, Texas would almost certainly vote Democrat. Bentsen, born and bred in Texas, would portray Bush as the true prep-school Northerner he really is. With another choice, Texans would quickly turn from the part-time Texan with three homes around the United States. Besides, Bush just put down the state's hero...
...Abrams, who continued to harbor hopes of a popular uprising in Panama, liked the idea but not the venue. "You're a Panamanian," he said. "You should do this in Panama." Delvalle took the advice, returned home and made his dramatic announcement on Panamanian television -- only to have Noriega turn the tables and fire him. When the U.S. offered only moral support, Delvalle was forced into hiding. A top U.S. official offers this startling explanation of why Washington wasn't better prepared: "We didn't think he ((Delvalle)) would...
...first golfer ever to bank $1 million and no championships. "I went at it very egocentrically," he says. "I thought everything revolved around me and my ball, as if what the other players did wouldn't matter." For a year or two, he patiently waited his turn. "Then I got to the questioning stage, from there to the doubting stage, from there to the changing-everything stage." After a while, the kidding of friends and the kind telegrams from strangers stopped. "In the locker room, the other players didn't know what to say. I could feel their helplessness...
...movies, comedy concerts and other original fare. Now basic cable services are getting into the act as well. The USA Network, once filled largely with creaky reruns, has increased the number of fresh shows dramatically. Lifetime, with a diet of talk and service shows aimed mostly at women, will turn out 2,000 hours of original programming this year, in contrast to 200 hours in 1983. Among the most innovative is the Nickelodeon children's channel, which will produce eight new series this year, twice as many as last year, including a children's talk show and a courtroom sitcom...
...involved the garbage of Billy Greenwood of Laguna Beach, Calif. In 1984, after learning from an informant that Greenwood might be dealing drugs and after observing a parade of cars making brief nocturnal stops at his posh hilltop home, Police Investigator Jenny Jones asked the local refuse collector to turn over the brown plastic trash bags in front of the house. Clawing through the contents with rubber gloves, officers uncovered a rich nest of drug-related paraphernalia: razor blades, straws containing cocaine residue, and phone bills listing calls to people with drug records. Based on this evidence, the police obtained...