Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration has made a surprisingly poor target. President Reagan has not been playing George Wallace, hurling racist slurs, and chanting "segregation forever." While David Stockman's book reveals some racist attitudes at the White House, and the press worried for a while that Reagan was going to "turn back the clock" on civil rights, the Reagan Administration has taken a pretty low-key posture on civil rights...
WITH that promise, the death knell sounded for the trade bill. The Democratic leadership was unable to win the necessary two-thirds majority in the Senate to override the forthcoming Presidential veto. But whether or not another trade bill is passed, the veto could turn out to be a hidden blessing for the Democrats...
...consequences. If no action is taken to resolve the Palestinian problem, by the turn of the century the Arab population in Palestine will be almost equal to the Jewish population. But the Arab population will be full of bitterness as a result of unjust treatment and denial of their rights. This is a recipe for disaster...
...chambermaid at an Adirondacks hotel and her unexpected marriage to one of the guests, a rich but supernally dull stock trader: "I read some time ago that they're building robots that think. If such robots are built they'll be just like Boris." Next comes the surprising turn in which Boris introduces his handsome young nephew into their lives, obviously engineering his wife's adultery. It works, and that is followed by her leap out of a window and failed suicide. What does she make of all this? "I came to tell you," she informs her host, "only...
...record for most candidate covers in an election year was set in the tumultuous 1968 race: Democrats Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy each had a turn on the cover, as did Republicans Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon, the eventual winner. The proliferation and unpredictability of primary elections have made us more cautious over the years. When Robert Dole took the Iowa caucuses last February, we wanted to see more evidence of his strength before making him a cover choice. Sure enough, Dole lost in New Hampshire to George Bush. The Vice President's 1988 campaign efforts...