Word: teetering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours, when early exit polls showed Buchanan in a dead heat with Bush, the President's advisers feared that he might be defeated. Campaign manager Robert Teeter telephoned Bush to warn him. Realizing that male voters were turning out in disproportionate numbers for Buchanan, Bush officials issued an emergency order to the campaign's massive phone banks: Call only women voters...
...World War II heroism and image as a devoted family man will compare favorably to the Arkansas Governor's record on at least those two scores. But the Democratic nominee, whoever it turns out to be, will be harder to beat if Buchanan keeps knocking the President off balance. Teeter likes to say that Americans "understand that George Bush is not about to let the wheels come off." If voters come to feel that Bush's stability is just another word for inertia, anything could happen this fall...
...most consistent athlete and freshest stylist. Skating to Lecuona's Malaguena, she showed the delicacy and pace that make her a joy to watch. In the long -- 4- min. -- format she fumbled one triple jump, but everyone else in contention did at least that. In the current high-vaulting, teeter-totter world of skating, to jump is to survive, to land upright is to prevail...
...Atwater died last year at the age of 40 from a brain tumor. Ailes has retired from politics. Baker is busy running the State Department. Of the Big Four behind Bush's 1988 campaign, Teeter is the only one who is involved in Bush's re-election effort...
With three-quarters of the Baker-Atwater-Ailes-Teeter team gone, though, and no one with comparable experience running campaigns in his re-election staff, Bush probably can't do it. The president needed a thousand points of political brilliance to win in 1988. Then, he was dangerously behind in New Hampshire until attacking front-runner Bob Dole with "Senator Straddle" ads and in the general election attacking Dukakis with Willie Horton pieces. And back then, the economy was in much better shape...