Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have good reason to be wary, because somewhere in his 17th-floor aerie in a North Dallas office building is Ross Perot, whose potential impact on the 1992 race is still unclear. Generally written off when he re-entered the campaign on Oct. 1, Perot profited from his three blunt, engaging debate performances and his well-received, 30-minute TV commercials. Holding his public appearances and press conferences to a minimum, Perot has nonetheless seen his ratings climb from single digits into figures that in such states as New Mexico, Arizona, Arkansas and California approach those of Bush...
...subject in which conversation is blunt and unambiguous is sex. On their first date, Jack and Wally kiss briefly, then she suddenly blurts out, "Would you like to have sex?" They proceed to debate the possibility with all the emotional involvement of a discussion of tax policy on Wall Street Week. There are gag lines that must have had the show's writers in stitches ("Your condom or mine?"), but the whole encounter is contrived and phony, like too much of the show...
...inventor who has patented a safer, blunt-end type of ear-cleaning cotton swab says he got the idea from Hammer's flattop. Next: a feather duster that looks like Don King...
...welcome the international effort to fly in food and medicine but are worried that the relief operation is treating the symptom of shortage, not the cause. What Sarajevans want above all else is to see the aggressor routed. "A necessary evil" is Bosnia-Herzegovinian Defense Minister Jerko Doko's blunt term for the United Nations' hard-won airlift. "I wish the airport hadn't been opened in this way, because it has actually slowed down the liberation of Sarajevo...
...Blunt talk on trade marked a private meeting between Dan Quayle and Kiichi Miyazawa during the Japanese Prime Minister's visit to Washington last week. The Vice President brought up the troubled U.S.-JAPAN BUSINESS COUNCIL, which has been holding talks aimed at lowering trade barriers. Prospects looked good after President Bush visited Japan in January. But progress stalled last month when Japanese members abruptly denied that problems exist. Snapped a Japanese CEO to his U.S. counterparts: "You just aren't competitive." The seething Americans threatened to quit the council. After Quayle complained at length over breakfast with Miyazawa last...