Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview with The Crimson, Real Bird described the Crow Nation as a people living in poverty despite their ownership of many natural resources. However, political changes were needed to exploit the reserves, he said...
...this atmosphere, it was relatively easy for Bush to exploit the royalist genes that linger in the Republican bloodstream despite the transfusion of Reaganism. None of his rivals could make a convincing case that the normal line of succession should be suspended in 1988. On Tuesday night one of Dole's Democratic friends, Party Elder Bob Strauss, was visibly saddened by the G.O.P. election returns. Then he brightened and observed, "The Democratic Party may be better off with this result." However, such doubts about Bush's ability to defend the Reagan palace, either in November or in the White House...
...televised debates; but with more candor and detail than in past campaigns, the press has been able to report the strategies behind the tactics. First comes incessant polling to test a rival's vulnerabilities, then the devising of advertising slogans and one-liners for the candidate to exploit such weaknesses. Candidates call press conferences to exhibit their latest negative commercials, while consultants explain their psychological subtleties. Campaign strategists boast how they put in the candidate's mouth his most successful ad libs. It is as if acknowledging phoniness makes it honest...
...program's producer. Ailes, then 28, shot back, "Television is not a gimmick." The following year, Ailes was hired to help create the "new" Nixon. In 1984 he helped prepare Ronald Reagan for his second debate with Walter Mondale, giving him the effective quip "I'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience...
This opening struggle for the presidency is a roving and restless assault on the sensibilities of the Iowans. The candidates and their handlers come in droves, encased in gleaming jets, dressed in dark pinstripes and tasseled shoes, determined to make the caucuses a stage that their men can exploit. Events propel them so rapidly that even if they wanted to understand Iowa, they would not have time. Hence George Bush talks about debutante parties as if Dubuque were Greenwich, and Gary Hart thinks he can somehow walk away from an indulgent weekend. Pete du Pont promotes school vouchers that just...