Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blunt, breathless way, Morris went around the room describing the assets of each member of the team. He called Doug Schoen, the intense and bespectacled pollster, a superb numbers man and a loyal friend. Hank Sheinkopf, a straight-talking New York consultant, was a "raw talent" who excelled at making emotional attack ads. Marius Penczner, a video producer from Nashville, Tennessee, was a terrific shooter but didn't know much about politics. Bill Knapp, Squier's lanky partner, was a top-notch writer and manager, while Tom Ochs, the firm's third partner, was a tough political operative. And Morris...
...reform. Early Monday morning, Clinton told Penn he wanted to respond on the stump to Dole's attacks. Penn discouraged him. "Anything we say becomes the day's lead story," he said. Penn told him about the new spot, and they decided to put it up immediately. To further blunt Dole's attack, the White House readied some Clinton remarks on campaign-finance reform. He would come out in favor of the McCain-Feingold reform bill, which he had done nothing to support during the previous session and which Dole helped kill. The late response didn't make the problem...
...BLUNT (R) District...
...Blunt, a fifth-generation southwest Missourian, lost his 1992 bid for Governor in a bitterly negative campaign. Not repeating that mistake, he centered this year's primary campaign on Christian character and family virtues--supported by a healthy campaign fund. The conservative Blunt hopes to eliminate "million-dollar pensions" for members of Congress, and believes government should return more decisions to state and local levels...
James Kunen's article on the trend toward replacing nurses with unlicensed patient-care technicians led Clare Kranstover, an R.N. and caseworker with Kemper National Services in Park City, Utah, to issue this blunt warning: "Patients, beware! You will be at risk when hospitals put you in the hands of a technician. If the person caring for you does not have R.N. after his or her name, leave that hospital immediately!" Kranstover, 41, has been a nurse for 11 years, and was a cardiac nurse at a San Diego hospital the night a technician allowed a patient who had just...