Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hard-line tactics, which he said included alienating Cuba from the world marketplace and the use of force, have only further entrenched Castro's control of the island nation, said Llovio-Menedez...
...rest of the convention, the Republicans will try to paint Dukakis as an ultraliberal who is soft on crime and lacks foreign policy experience. They'll also bash Massachusetts, and they'll take a few cheap shots at Harvard liberals. And they'll use the "L" word...
Once in his office, Dukakis took up where he left off before the convention and became immersed in efforts to defuse legislative protests over his use of a line-item veto to bring the state budget into balance...
Admittedly his earlier losses had been expected or deemed possible by Dukakis -- just as his losing votes in the legislature had been when he first went there. But those losses he meant to use on the way to larger victories. In retrospect, he brought the Redemptive Loss within that same scheme. It would make him a better Governor the next time -- just you wait and see. His mother would take up the theme: All had happened for the best. Dukakis even came to take a kind of perverse credit for the loss, emphasizing that "I should never have lost...
...Opry is well known to be the citadel of country conservatism -- an ornery character like Earle, more rock oriented and bolder lyrically, might use the word conformity -- but Travis will pay homage to tradition. Earle will joke about his "heavy-metal bluegrass" sound, and share, with Crowell and Griffith, a high regard for the personalized regionalism of the Texas singer- songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Oslin sings with a voice that has as much Broadway in it as Biloxi, and Kieran Kane of the O'Kanes will talk about a hypnotic love song of theirs called All Because of You just...