Word: 85th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the Big Tent collapsing on their heads--and in the week of Ronald Reagan's 85th birthday, no less--Gingrich and party chairman Haley Barbour were struggling to come up with a story that could paper over this growing gulf and restore a broad theme to their election-year drive. Their best effort: an argument that what their party stands for is major tax reform. Both went out of their way to emphasize that the flat tax is only one of several proposals for overhauling the hated federal tax system...
...warrior and a big softie. At Ronald Reagan's 85th birthday party, Colin Powell heard the orchestra strike up the Reagans' favorite song, the Gershwins' Our Love Is Here to Stay, and sang it for Nancy. "Rich baritone," said bandleader Murray Korda...
Despite losing two last week, Yale (7-11, 2-4 Ivy) was sparked by guard Kathleen Offer's 23 points, 14 assists, seven rebounds and three steals. Guard Jodi Brandt also put her name in the Elis' record books with her 85th career trey...
...would capture a slot on network TV. Though local sponsors chip in enough to keep Everson clothed, housed and fed, Nickell still has to support himself as a waiter. So the pair set their sights beyond broadcast TV, beyond cable TV, to the computer networks. Last week, as their 85th episode, Global Village Idiots, was flickering across Bloomington televisions, it was simultaneously stored on the Internet, where millions of people worldwide could retrieve it--the first television show broadcast in cyberspace...
Tuesday, it was Maine's turn to rain on an already soggy season for Harvard; although the Black Bears controlled the play as precious few teams have against the Crimson, it took Jake Oulmet's second goal of the game--and a controversial goal at that--in the 85th minute to deal Harvard its seventh non-Ivy loss in seven tries, this time by a 2-1 score...