Word: banners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convention was a hundred Fourth of July parades rolled into one, a pageant of family values and up-by-the-bootstraps success stories and patriotism, with silver confetti falling from the sky like diamonds and 60,000 balloons blown up by volunteers. Delegates heard The Star-Spangled Banner sung so often by stars like Aretha Franklin and Marilyn Horne that they may actually know all the words by now. The whole thing was as Republican as a capital-gains-tax cut, threatening to become at times as maudlin as Nixon's Checkers speech and as corny as Reagan's Morning...
...most of the power suppliers in the U.S. had operated a gridwork of cushy monopolies that allowed them to earn a guaranteed rate of return, limited their exposure to loss and actually punished them for experimenting with anything that didn't meet strict standards of "prudency." Under the banner of protecting consumers of electricity from being overcharged, a maze of federal, state and local regulations had built up that stifled incentive to change...
...Knowles recalled that one year ago, he wason the telephone with Wilson, telling her that hisrecommendation to the Corporation as dean was agrave secret. Then, Knowles said, he saw the day'sCrimson, with a banner headline announcing hisimpending appointment...
...most Broadwayesque of musicals caps a banner season...
...airplane trailing a perot for president banner buzzed overhead, a frenzied crowd, some wearing ROSS FOR BOSS T shirts, cheered the diminutive man who they believe can clean up the mess in Washington. "Change means starting over, not just remodeling the house," declared Austin housewife Alida Anton. Many Americans agree with her that it may be time to hire a new contractor: a TIME/cnn poll showed Perot at 33%, Bush at 28% and Clinton at 24%. (See cover stories beginning on page...