Word: handler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workers on supervisors and 183 by bosses on workers. Last August, John Taylor, a letter carrier in Escondido, Calif., went on a rampage with a rifle, killing two colleagues, his wife and himself. Four other California postal employees committed suicide this year. In May, an irate Boston mail handler in a stolen airplane strafed the city streets with an AK-47. During a 13-hour siege in New Orleans last December, a mail handler shot his supervisor in the face, killing him, and wounded three other people. In Massachusetts in June 1988, a clerk killed a co-worker...
...spotlight will be guard Mike Gielen, who will be the team's co-captain for the second-consecutive season. An adept ball-handler and strong defensive player, Gielen sets the tempo for the team...
Junior guard Scott Gilly is a solid ball-handler and shooter who will give Gielen and Smith a breather from time to time. Also seeking time in the backcourt are junior Brian Mackey and sophomore Ian Smith--Dana's twin brother...
Quayle's role has been anything but "traditional." Protest signs reading VERY PRETTY, BUT CAN HE TYPE? are almost as common along the Quayle trail as those reading CHICKEN HAWK. His wife Marilyn, a lifelong Quayle handler, told reporters her husband tries to reread Plato's Republic once a year. She sounded like one of the oldtime MGM publicity men who, whenever a starlet got into trouble, churned out a press release announcing her enrollment in correspondence courses at the Sorbonne. Ridicule is as contagious in politics as it is in show business: even a few Bush aides privately call...
Moreover, 1988 has become the Year of the Handler partly because of the great voids this time. Among them: the lack of visceral issues to shape the campaign, the absence of a commanding personality on either ticket, and the fuzziness of the national mood on both economic and foreign policy issues. In this environment, small tactics and forced errors can have a large impact. Experts in offensive gambits and defensive damage control are indispensable. With no margin for error, the danger of a gaffe, a mistake that will reveal too much, induces a crippling level of scripted caution. After...