Word: bannering
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...University who is getting his first taste this week of national media exposure, has adopted most of Ross Perot's platform and won the support of most of the Texas billionaire's supporters. He plans to merge his current presidential candidacy with the Natural Law party with the Reform banner, rise above the current fray and pull a Jesse Ventura on an American electorate that he says is thirsting for an alternative. His running mate: Nat Goldhaber, multimillionaire founder and former CEO of dot-com Cybergold, Inc. (Goldhaber, by the way has been diplomatically sidestepping questions about whether he will...
This has been a banner week for American Jews. When Al Gore '69 announced Tuesday that he had selected Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman as his running mate, a storm of press coverage heralded the "bold" and "unprecedented" decision. Ordinarily cynical pundits praised Gore warmly for promoting tolerance and diversity in choosing Lieberman, the first Jew to run for vice president on a major party ticket. Jews across the country were said to be celebrating at the news. "From the kosher restaurants of Manhattan's Upper West Side to the corner shuls of Los Angeles' Pico-Robertson district," proclaimed...
...protesters shared Hirschl's calm, measured speech. Racing back and forth between the protesters in the middle of the street and the many spectators who clogged sidewalks along the route, a man with a sprawling, unkempt beard and a banner tucked under his arm screamed in onlookers' faces...
...Ford's latest maneuvers as a sign that the very dirty car industry can, in fact, be cleaned up. And Wednesday, when Ford insiders leaked news that the company will actually act on those good intentions by increasing the average fuel economy on its SUVs, environmentalists raised the Ford banner ever higher...
Pregracke is a blue-eyed Midwestern patriot who flies a pair of large flags from one of his barges: Old Glory and a black banner reading THANKS VETERANS FOR OUR FREEDOM. Though he hasn't experienced combat, he feels a mystical bond to fighting men that he says he can't explain but that fills him with gratitude when the going gets tough. "When it's really hot and the mosquitoes are tearing you up, I just think, 'At least I'm not getting shot at. At least I'm not getting my head blown off," he says...