Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corgi looks as if it were put together with the unrelated body parts of three or four other breeds--the parts, as it happens, that each breed most longed to get rid of when it looked in the mirror every morning. ("If I could just get some other dog to take this little sausage of a torso, I could go places on these legs...
...with voter loyalty this year a sometime thing, any of those numbers could jump or dive soon. What's going to prove more enduring are the grievances of Buchanan supporters and the intensity that makes them a breed apart from other Republican voters. Compared with the middling sort behind Dole, Forbes or Alexander, the word that best characterizes them is more. On controversial issues the Dole-Forbes-Alexander supporters are roughly similar in outlook. The Buchananites are a statistical fever spike...
Buchanan insists he's not an economic isolationist. He just wants to identify essential industries and protect them selectively, on the model of the import quotas that Ronald Reagan imposed on Japanese cars. But among economists, an otherwise squabbling breed, there's something like a consensus that for the great majority of American workers, free trade is a long-term boon that delivers better bargains on consumer goods and boosts demand for the products of America's fast-growing, high-wage export industries. More important factors in holding down wages are automation, sluggish growth in productivity and consumer demand...
...further exasperate the situation, this breed of Yak went extinct 10 years ago during the tragic Tibetan Yak Massacre of '85. Harvard is forced to clandestinely send trusted administrators in Yak disguise to serve as bearers for the elusive bubble-sheet guru...
...fractious Da Gamas trace their lineage, perhaps incorrectly, to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who was the first European to reach India, thereby launching the spice trade that made the Moor's forebears wealthy. "Mine is the story of the fall from grace of a high-born cross-breed," the Moor notes, although the past "grace" he mentions consists largely of Da Gama insanities, grudges and general bad behavior. "What an epidemic of getting-even runs through my tale, what a malaria cholera typhoid of eye-for-tooth and tit-for-tat! No wonder I have ended...