Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Above all, it was a political issue. Reagan's veto allowed the Democrats to remind voters that they are the party of the workingman. Their strategy: separate the trade bill (which both business and labor want) from the plant- closing provision, virtually daring Republicans to vote against the latter. Chortled a Democratic aide: "We win either way. The working stiff gets his notification, or we have one hell of an issue right through to November...
...said, 'I know you didn't buy anything last month, but I'd like to help you out this month.' He wears well on you. Pretty soon he's a member of the family." Jim Young of Ochoco Feed and Farm Supply agrees. "Dukakis has got more for the workingman than Reagan, and Bush is just another Reagan," says Young. "We're ready for a change...
...Reason: W. Craig McClelland, executive vice president of IP, sits on PNC's board. Such strong-arm tactics give hope to William Meserve, the president of the United Paperworkers' Local 14 in Jay. Meserve calls Rogers "the only effective tool we could bring in" and "probably the workingman's biggest friend...
...cattle-ranch rally in North Carolina, the crowd polished off the remnants of a barbecued pig and the bluegrass band wound up a rollicking rendition of Rocky Top as Al Gore mounted the platform. "I've been on the side of the average workingman and -woman," he drawled earnestly. "I've been on the side of the small farmers." Standing in front of a monument to Confederate heroes in South Carolina, Pat Robertson reminded his audiences that "I went to school where Robert E. Lee was president." In heavily Hispanic Corpus Christi and San Antonio, Michael Dukakis appeared...
...shaped like a football! But there was no modest house in the shape of a coffee cup for a waitress or Ralph Kramden for a bus driver. Unfortunately, these renegade architects, for all their noble ideals, are merely creating playgrounds for the wealthy. Come on, build me, a simple workingman, a house that looks like a guitar or a fox terrier...