Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some of the minority Americans who traveled to Houston this week say the Democrats are dead wrong. They blast the opposition for what they term its unworkable programs, its unfulfillable promises and its untruthful promises and its untruthful agenda. They applaud the GOP for some of the same reasons the Democrats criticize it--that it makes no pretenses of offering special support for minorities...
...skinhead's T shirt says SMILE -- IT'S THE APOCALYPSE. And judging from the scene around him, maybe it is. Several hundred young hedonists join him in dancing wild tribal stomps as strobe lights flash and 50,000 watts of techno- house music blast from the speakers of a New York City nightclub called the Shelter. On the fringes, others watch an upside-down projection of Flintstones % cartoons or sidle up to the nonalcoholic "smart bar" for bottled water or vitamin-enriched fruit juice. "It's a good crowd tonight," observes Moby, a techno deejay with a loyal following...
Bush and his advisers do have much to fear. Clinton has the credibility and willingness to blast Bush and defend himself--two characteristics Michael S. Dukakis sorely lacked...
...dock it on the Potomac at the Washington Navy Yard. Eisenhower would be rushed by limousine -- one of two onyx-black Cadillacs with a tank engine under the hood -- to a prearranged point on the river, where the PT boat would be waiting. After sailing safely past the blast zone, the President would be met by Secret Service agents and driven to one of three underground command posts. The PT boat, as well as an ultrasensitive underground command post at his Maryland presidential retreat, Camp David, were secretly maintained by an elite team of officers under the innocuous name...
...annoyed at the disloyalty of Republicans he has supported for decades by campaigning for them, attending fund raisers, even leading their families on private tours of the White House. He recently addressed a fund raiser for Senator Alfonse D'Amato, for example, only to have the New York Republican blast him days later for spending too much time on the golf course. Says Thomas ("Lud") Ashley, a close Bush friend since both men were at Yale: "George is normally a very even-tempered guy, but he's also a very loyal guy. And when he doesn't get loyalty...