Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...premiums for wealthier retirees and require nursing-home residents to make a small co-payment. But the House didn't want to go along. "We did a courageous thing," says Lott. As the negotiations entered their final stage, Lott recalls, the response from House members "went from a courteous blank stare to an outright NO! ... I'm ashamed of the House, and I'm ashamed of the President," says Lott, faulting the President for refusing to take on the senior lobby even at a moment of record approval ratings and with no need to ever face them again...
...then dragged over to the pavilion where Kaiser and Carter were being held facedown on the concrete with a sawed-off shotgun. "Do it!" one of the assailants commanded. And Carter was shot in the back of the head with a .22-cal. handgun at point-blank range. The attacker with the sawed-off shotgun took aim at Nicole's face. The trigger jammed, so the guy with the .22 fired two shots, one into Kaiser's head and another in Nicole's face...
Perhaps reluctant to recognize that the problem might be him, NEWT GINGRICH is saying goodbye to his messenger. TOM BLANK, who became the Speaker's director of communications in February and was assigned the Sisyphean task of lifting Gingrich's approval ratings, will return to the private sector by August. G.O.P. leadership sources tell TIME the shake-up was engineered by JOE GAYLORD, an outside adviser to Gingrich whose power has been a constant source of friction on the Speaker's staff and in high G.O.P. circles. "Gaylord is the immovable object in Newt's life," says an aide...
...after discovering a red Chevrolet pickup truck authorities believe he stole after allegedly killing a New Jersey cemetery caretaker in May. The vehicle was found Tuesday along a crowded beach front strip a few blocks away from the spot where Versace was shot twice in the head at point blank range. The FBI also reported that Cunanan, a 27-year-old gay prostitute suspected of killing his former gay lover and three other men, had been spotted in West Palm Beach area as early as three weeks ago. While Cunanan is the FBI's lead suspect, agency officials say they...
...indoctrinate girls into a sexually confident adulthood, Wolf uses the singing group's Knock Three Times--a song about a guy who has a crush on a cute neighbor he doesn't know--as an example of how teenage girls in the 1960s and '70s were taught to be blank images rather than real people. Never mind that the era gave rise to a slew of empowering female singer-songwriters; in Wolf's distorted algebra Tony Orlando cancels out the cultural weight of, say, Joni Mitchell...