Word: ace
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...Under current law, people are convicted of anyoffense and, while they are in jail, don't havetheir federal aid cut off, and we don't see whydrug abusers should be singled out," said CharlesSaunders, vice president for governmentalrelations at the American Council on Education(ACE...
...slips his shackles. "Not at any time," comes the retort. "Only when it was funny." Such are the Toontown laws of physics; they do not always apply to this movie. Every framed frame is beguiling, as befits a pioneering project made by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) and ace Animator Richard Williams. But not all the gags -- even those quoted from such Bugs Bunny classics as Falling Hare and Rabbit Seasoning -- have the limber wit of the cartoons that inspired them. Nor do the human actors add much. Hoskins, in a role for which Eddie Murphy and Bill Murray...
...General Edwin Meese. The Vice President could be further embarrassed by his close association with former Navy Secretary John Lehman. One of the principal targets of the investigation is former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and Systems Melvyn Paisley. He and an associate, retired Admiral James ("Ace") Lyons, who had commanded the Pacific Fleet, were close personal and professional friends of Lehman's at the Pentagon...
...objective has been all along to inform the next president," says Charles Saunders, ACE vice president for governmental relations. "I think the Friday Commission has helped shape the frames of reference and the parameters" of the debate over education...
Mitterrand's 54%-to-46% win over Chirac was not just decisive, but daunting. It left him holding most of the cards -- including the ace-in-the-hole option of calling a snap parliamentary election. Polls show that the Socialists stand to win 37% in the new parliamentary vote. Under the current majority voting system, that translates to more than half of the 577 seats in the National Assembly. Accordingly, many old-line Socialists urged Mitterrand to capitalize on his momentum by holding a new vote that could overturn Chirac's 1986 parliamentary majority...