Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deals and making threats and trading bribes, and the old bosses were not always weighing the merits when they christened their candidates. It is hard to watch the Bush anointment and not be shocked by the sheer, almost undemocratic nerve of it, and the risk that this could all blow up and leave the party with a choice among broken and, other than Steve Forbes, penniless understudies. "No matter how much support you get from insiders, activists, fund raisers, you still gotta run the gauntlet," says longtime Republican strategist Charles Black. "You gotta earn it at the polls. That...
What the students don't understand is that across America, team owners are the new children of poverty. With mighty tantrums, the owners threaten to blow town if they don't get new stadiums. Skeptics in Connecticut got wise earlier this year and put the kibosh on a plan to lure the New England Patriots to Hartford with $375 million in subsidies for a new ball park...
...looks like the space race all over again -- and just like the Sputnik beat the United States into orbit, the Russians got into Kosovo before anyone from the West. And that?ll be a blow to a lot more than just NATO?s pride, because it shows that Moscow -- although it's all described as a big "mistake" -- doesn?t accept the second-fiddle peacekeeping role envisaged for it by the Western alliance. While NATO forces delayed their entry into the province for logistical reasons Friday, a Kosovo-bound Russian convoy raced through Serbia from Bosnia, bearing the markings...
...After the win, doctors alerted Tomassoni that senior defenseman Ben Storey had contracted mononucleosis. Storey's absence from the lineup dealt a crushing blow to the team's transition game. As the team's lone true rushing defenseman, he was counted on to set up the attack--especially on the power play...
...court on the first floor, with young professionals and students alike chatting and typing away on their laptops while sipping double mocha lattes. The second floor hosts an upscale hair-styling salon with massive mirrors, chatty hair stylists and cinnamon-y breakfast delights for customers in line for the blow dryers...