Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play kicks off with Brad addressing what seems to be an empty crib, declaring his plans to leave home with his new girlfriend in a last bid for independence. Immediately, the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf alarm begins to sound: Is there a dead baby behind this family's dysfunction? Naturally, there is--though this fact isn't fully revealed until the play's climax, it's obvious right from the beginning, and it makes for a pretty flimsy plot device, not to mention a derivative...
...Crimson lost to the Huskies 3-0 last year, which was part of the reason Harvard didn't get an at-large NCAA bid...
...Clinton drew nominal primary challengers and no general election competition to become Arkansas' attorney general. Same story in 1978, when he became the nation's youngest governor. Even after a near-fatal defeat in his 1980 re-election bid, Clinton faced a weak incumbent in 1982. Skipping forward 10 years, he won the Democratic nomination for president from a field widely considered the party's second-string, and went on to face George Bush, who was not exactly grounded in the political reality of his time. Now, in 1996, he faces Bob Dole. Tough...
...better off out of his government. He may come to regret it. If Yeltsin's worsening health brings about new presidential elections before the government can cope with massive public resentment over months of unpaid salaries, Lebed could parlay his high profile and solid popularity into a potent bid for the presidency. -->