Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BILL CLINTON HAS BEEN ELECTED TO FIX THE ECONOMY. Everything else is secondary. He knows it, and the nation expects it. The question is how to deliver. After promising change and offering hope during the campaign, the President-elect is currently counseling caution and patience. Each bow to urgency (the people want "aggressive and prompt action, and I'm going to give it to them") is coolly qualified: "We didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight...
...119th captain will quietly bow...
Except for the initial chanting, our vegan delights (cheese and eggs were optional) were taken in complete silence. "Clappers" directed our actions, while we placed our bowls side by side, aligning our chop sticks 30 degrees (I kid not) from the table's edge--tips out. With a bow or a hand signal, we took the food sliding down the table. This had to be devoured in all haste, because slow eating is indulgence...
...unlike the fictional senator, Takano has won a reputation for being prim and proper. At Rialto Junior High, students and teachers alike made fun of his trademark bow tie and tasseled loafers...
...advice of his campaign staff, he's traded in the bow ties he wore teaching school for standard neck wear. And, as his few critics point out, Takano is not entirely a political novice, having won a seat on the board of trustees of Riverside Community College two years...