Word: wednesday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some national polls reflect a dramatic jump in approval. Gallup has Bush at 70%, up 14 points since May, 10 points higher than Ronald Reagan when he approached the six-month mark. A TIME/CNN poll taken last Wednesday shows Bush cruising along at 63% approval at a point when the presidential honeymoon usually comes to an end and a slide begins. Pundits have called this a "second honeymoon" and "Teflon II." Neither seems quite right since we now know that Bush takes showers with his dog -- hardly the stuff of romance...
...Revolution will probably have six or seven related ones that you somehow end up buying. The stock is large, but unreliable. While Revolution has a wide variety of books, if you see something you want there on Monday, buy it--it may well not be in stock by Wednesday...
...offer touched off a frenzy among Wall Street arbitragers, who snapped up Time stock in the belief that Paramount would prevail or attract other bidders into the fray. Time shares skyrocketed from 126 to 170 on Wednesday and finished the week at 170 1/4. Since Wall Street investors considered all three companies now to be in play, Warner stock jumped to 56 1/8, up 4 points for the week, and Paramount rose...
...ethical standards and everything to do with "character assassination." By Tuesday, Atwater was backpedaling, saying he had not approved the memo: "I feel confident that if I had seen this, it would not have gone out." Atwater apologized to Foley; Gingrich also apologized and disavowed his aide's actions. Wednesday Goodin cleaned out his desk...
...House of Representatives last Wednesday was part theater, part courtroom and part confessional. As his wife Betty wept in the visitors' gallery, Speaker Jim Wright played defense attorney, arguing away each charge against him; thespian, wiping his brow and lowering his voice to a whisper; and penitent: "Are there things I would do differently? Oh, boy." As the minutes ticked away -- Wright took more than an hour -- some began to wonder whether he was giving a resignation speech or making another plea for forgiveness. Finally the words that had caught in his throat for so long passed his lips...