Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader you can trust" is virtually the same as Jimmy Carter's was at the same month of 1977. One key difference is that Reagan's level of approval has risen 9% since January (to 57%), while Carter's rating was on a downward slide. Majorities ranging from 71% to 52% agreed with the propositions that Reagan had lived up to his campaign promises in six key areas: working effectively with Congress, providing strong leadership in government, providing moral leadership, keeping U.S. defenses strong, getting rid of waste in government and making Americans feel good again...
...legislation, Rostenkowski over the years has built a reputation on the Hill as likable, earnest, cautious,and absolutely trustworthy. Among the show horses of Congress, he is a workhorse. Rostenkowski was close to his goal of becoming Speaker when the 1968 Democratic Convention intervened. Lyndon Johnson, watching the convention slide into disarray as violence escalated in Chicago's streets, phoned Rostenkowski from Texas and told him to take charge. Rostenkowski did, but only after snatching the gavel away from embarrassed Majority Leader Carl Albert. Two years later, Albert, then Speaker, vetoed Rostenkowski's nomination as majority whip. Rostenkowsi...
...slide out of bed on his side and approach carefully. At first, I think maybe he died in the night, but his eyes are live, they follow me, keeping me in focus. I come to the edge of his bed. His mouth opens twice, dry pale lips, paper-frail. But he gets out a sound, a thin, high voice almost falsetto...
...moment, however, INN'S greatest contribution is to knee-high stations like KGSW in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Says General Manager Erick Steffens: "Before, if a Mount St. Helens erupted, or there was an earthquake in Italy, we'd have to put up a slide and try to describe it. Now we don't have to be ashamed...
...Inquiring Camera Girl" for the now-defunct Washington Times-Herald. Though the former First Lady eventually covered the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, she never quite clicked with the bulky Speed Graphic cameras then favored for news photography. Said Jackie later: "I always forgot to pull out the slide." As Margaret Bourke-White in the film Gandhi, Bergen (Carnal Knowledge, Starting Over) should have had no such difficulties. In 1965 Director Richard Attenborough, 57, (Young Winston, A Bridge Too Far) told her that if he ever managed to make a film biography of the Indian leader, he wanted...