Word: gephardt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much attention by anyone, period. You have to be winning to be scrutinized--unless as Joe Biden learned, another candidate has it in for you. The white candidates who supposedly have been under the gun of scrutiny so far all were doing well at the polls at the time. Gephardt's trade policy and his flip-flopping on the issues--notably abortion--came under fire only after his victory in Iowa. Gary Hart drew the spotlight of the Miami Herald because he was the front-runner. Paul Simon was quizzed on how his budget would add up only after...
...recent withdrawal of Rep. Richard Gephardt (D.-Mo.) has left a small pool of uncommitted support which both Jackson and Dukakis seem to be dividing evenly, the experts said...
Since the media felt it had the right to delve into Senator Joseph Biden's plagiarism in law school and to ridicule Rep. Dick Gephardt's record of flip-flops in the past decade, it has the responsibility to apply the same standards of scrutiny to Jackson...
...Jackson's candidacy. Jackson not only ran up landslide margins in Detroit but also attracted a startling measure of white support, carrying cities like Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo and Saginaw. Nearly complete returns gave Jackson an awesome 54% of the total caucus vote, compared with Dukakis' 29%, while Richard Gephardt (13%), Paul Simon (2%) and Albert Gore (2%) trailed badly. Although the precise delegate breakdown remained murky at week's end, Jackson may have won half the 138 convention seats at stake. These figures were a further blow to Dukakis, whose run-everywhere strategy was in jeopardy after successive setbacks...
Despite the probable weakening of the Gephardt amendment, several other proposals in the trade bill, including some that are seemingly extraneous, rile the Administration and could invite a veto. One of them would force many companies to give at least 60 days' notice of impending plant closings. The White House opposes as excessively restrictive a section that would require a ban for up to five years on the importation of any products made by Toshiba, the Japanese electronics company, and Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, a Norwegian government-owned manufacturer of computers and weapons. They were found last year to have violated export...