Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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But the drive for a true change in the role of the nominating convention began after the Democratic disaster in Chicago in 1968, at which the wheel-horses of the local political organizations chose Hubert Humphrey over Eugene McCarthy, to the accompaniment of street rioting.
Indeed it had, in ways large and small. In the months before the delegates arrived, some 30 crumbling buildings were razed and another 50 or so were boarded up or painted. More than 10,000 trees and shrubs were planted along highways, and flags and bunting were hung on 400...
Graceful and majestic, their delicate, almond-shaped leaves framed against summer skies, elms once grew thickly in the forests of the eastern U.S. and served as shade trees along thousands of Main Streets. Then, in the early 1930s, disaster struck. A load of elm logs arrived from Europe infested with...
The spotlight is now on Silverman. Some industry insiders say his future at NBC is riding on the network's success in the first few weeks of the fall TV season. But one West Coast producer says: "Freddie's fall schedule is a disaster. His presidency will be...
Much of the new construction is also centered in downtown areas that only a few years ago were being written off as decaying disaster zones. Now the ever-threatening gas shortages, combined with the high cost of commuting by auto, have caused many companies to retain and even expand their...