Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That appeal worked just well enough to boost Bush to a respectable majority, although Dukakis did better than expected among Democrats who had voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984. According to the NBC-Wall Street Journal Election Day poll, Bush captured just 41% of that critical bloc. Voters who decided late, many of them Reagan Democrats, broke in favor of Dukakis. Outside the South, this group is heavily Roman Catholic. One of the few Democratic consolations this week was that Dukakis had eked out a narrow majority (52% vs. 48%) among Catholics, who were once a pillar of the party...
...from the campaign. In the limousine on the way over to the network, Bush protested that he could answer questions about Iran; he had been doing so all along. Ailes said, "You don't understand something. This is a hit squad . . . They've got you up against the wall. They're putting the blindfold on you. It's all over, pal." It was all a plot on the part of Dan Rather, Ailes argued, who was not a newsman but an ideological...
Another proud Harvard man, James F. O'Neil '51, who witnessed the 1968 Game, said he has kept a picture of the "winning" touchdown on his office wall for 20 years...
...wall will be made of dozens of individual gates that can be activated separately. Each unit is an empty steel box, nearly 12 ft. thick, 65 ft. wide and from 55 ft. to 88 ft. high, depending on sea depth. When not in use, the boxes will be filled with water and attached by a hinge to a concrete foundation buried in the lagoon bed. If an abnormally high tide threatens the city, the water inside the gates can be pumped out or displaced by compressed air. Suddenly buoyant, the gates swing on their hinges like the jaws...
...PACKAGERS. Every campaign is less spontaneous than the last, as the candidates -- some eagerly and others grudgingly -- submit to the discipline of their handlers. The growing sophistication of such research techniques as focus groups and audience meters enhances the underlying cynicism of modern politics. As on Wall Street, success is measured solely by the bottom line -- never mind such idealistic notions as conducting a dialogue with the electorate...