Word: wide
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Worst of all, perhaps, the latest polls show Mondale badly losing ground with the voters while attempting to steer between these minefields. Gallup now finds the former Vice President running 19 points behind Reagan, a gap more than twice as wide as the one that existed a month ago, when Mondale became the all but official Democratic nominee. A New York Times/CBS News poll puts the current Reagan lead at 15 points. Surveys this early in the campaign are no reliable guide to the outcome in November, but senior Democratic leaders are concerned. The polls, says one, "mean that since...
Samples from last week: New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro has done a "superb job" as head of the convention's platform committee; San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros would make "a superb Vice President." Friday's talk with Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins was "useful and wide-ranging"?just like all six previous interviews...
Yuppies and Yussies. For the convention's cosmopolites, there should be a shuttle service between the Moscone Convention Center and a five-block stretch of Union Street at the foot of Pacific Heights. Once a teeming singles scene, Union Street and its environs now offer a wide variety of trendy, late-night dining spots. The growing clientele of Yuppie couples at neighborhood drinking hangouts has muted the action, but Yussies (young unescorted singles) are not quite an extinct species. Perry's, which brought the singles to Union Street 15 years ago, is still worth a scan, and Rocker...
...Honduras last week, officials were considering whether to revise the 1954 Bilateral Assistance Military Agreement, under which the U.S. can bring a wide range of military equipment to Honduran soil, and in particular a secret 1982 appendix that made possible the creation of the Regional Military Training Center. The government of President Roberto Suazo Córdova has also been discreetly pressuring some 10,000 Honduran-based contras to move into Nicaragua. After playing host to as many as 5,000 U.S. servicemen and conducting joint military exercises with the U.S. almost continuously over the past 18 months, Honduras...
Says Larry King, a Washington-based radio host whose nightly network call-in show reaches 3.5 million people nation wide: "Their purpose is simply to enrage." Miami's Sandy Payton, whose WIOD show is less acerbic than those of competitors like Kane, believes that their appeal is strictly a matter of sensationalism: "Listening to these hosts is no different from slowing down to watch an auto accident...