Word: bradleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Politicians are paying attention. President Clinton just toughened restrictions on auto emissions, and with the environment expected to be big in the 2000 campaign, Al Gore and Bill Bradley are fighting for backing from eco-groups. As environmental concern becomes a core value in the U.S.--and in all other industrial nations--conservationists realize they can call on voters and consumers to hold slippery politicians and corporations to account...
...Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the use of vouchers in parochial schools in Milwaukee. In the presidential campaign, G.O.P. candidates John McCain and George W. Bush are trumpeting voucher proposals. While Vice President Al Gore launched an ad that calls vouchers a "big mistake," his Democratic opponent Bill Bradley supports them, at least as "experiments...
...here are the holiday greetings the presidential types are mailing their many best friends. Counterclockwise from bottom, you'll find Hatch's card (with a Christmas song sheet inside), George W.'s (with a biblical message) and family portraits galore (McCain, Bauer, Gore, Keyes, Forbes, Buchanan); Bradley claims he didn't send cards. The most tastefully sedate one--can you believe it?--features a wreath from The Donald. But only the Clintons have the White House on theirs. That's why this mail is about keeping those letters and dollars coming...
...political culture craves authenticity but bristles when it actually gets some. But ride with the Guv in his Lincoln Navigator, and you find that even the chastened Ventura is more candid than 99% of pols. On the Cuban trade embargo he says what self-styled truth tellers like Bill Bradley don't: "It's stupid. Fidel's outlasted eight Presidents. Is it an ego thing? Do we have to wait for him to die?" He's the rare non-Democratic Governor who gives Clinton generous credit for the economy. Try getting George W. Bush to do that...
...unifying power of Rocker's quotables was felt as soon as the article was published, as friends and foes alike found common ground in calling for disciplinary action. Mark Bradley, a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, had this message for the Braves: "Don't send him to sensitivity training. Don't enroll him in anger-management class. Don't fine him. Don't even suspend...