Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard has added Hartford, Texas and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo to its schedule, which will give the Crimson practice against better teams. The Ivy League now has an automatic bid this year for its champion, but Harvard also wants to make sure it's ready for the NCAAs...
...breakthrough that he claimed would "terminate this bloody bacchanalia." A cease-fire would commence at noon on Friday, Russian troops would begin departing Grozny, and joint patrols would police the shattered city. In another couple of days, he promised to produce a permanent political solution to Chechnya's bid for independence. Never mind that similar plans have come and gone in the 20-month war. Claiming credit for the deal, Lebed offered perhaps the most succinct analysis of last week's real struggle. "No one has given anyone any powers," he said. "You simply have to take them...
...Clinton to announce new restrictions, as he did last week, on the sale and advertising of cigarettes. These days, absolutely nothing is coming up roses for Big Tobacco. All year it's been battered by mounting lawsuits and seesawing stock prices. And now the new rules, part of a bid to stop smoking among teenagers, establish a precedent the industry has feared for decades. Clinton signed an Executive Order that subjects tobacco to regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. As a twist of the knife, the FDA claims its new authority over cigarettes by defining them as the delivery...
...third-party presidential bid of Alabama Governor George Wallace that year awoke the G.O.P. to a powerful new theme: conservative populism. From the time of William Jennings Bryan, the Democrats had been the defenders of the little folks against the power of money that had its natural home in the Republican Party. Wallace proposed instead a world in which waitresses and factory workers were oppressed by ivy-educated policy wonks and limousine liberals, an elite who crafted busing plans while their own kids went to private schools. Between them, Nixon and Wallace took 57% of the vote...
...chronic liver condition. Tucker was the first of the three Whitewater defendants to be sentenced. Susan McDougal will be sentenced Tuesday, but after cooperating with federal prosecutors James McDougal's sentencing has been postponed until November 18. In a potentially troubling development for President Clinton's reelection bid, lawyers have reported that McDougal, who faces 84 years in prison and $4.5 million in fines, has been talking to Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr's office for several weeks. In the past, McDougal had feistily refused to cooperate with the prosecution, which he called a $5 million Republican smear campaign...