Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into office with only 344,000 votes, a 40% plurality in a three-way race that split the Democratic vote. Former Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who campaigned for Mecham, has called for his resignation. Congressman Morris Udall and former Governor Bruce Babbitt have signed the recall petition. Says Ed Buck, a gay Phoenix businessman and conservative Republican who launched the recall movement last July: "Perhaps their support finally drove the point home to Evan Mecham that this is not a band of homosexuals and dissident Republicans...
David E.'s campaign flyers declare that "they'll do anything to get David E. Sullivan off the City Council," and blame David J's candidacy on "the big-time developers, the slum landlords, the patronage politicians, the fast-buck condo converters...
...both, but it now turns out that the bureau could have used some Ph.D.s in English. Both The New Yorker and The Nation magazines last week documented nearly half a century of FBI surveillance of more than 100 prominent American writers, including six Nobel laureates (Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill and John Steinbeck). The gumshoe lit crit was sometimes comically inept. FBI files, for example, described the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay as possibly subversive because she used the "analogy of the mole boring under the garden...
...enhanced his own can-do image (though there are already signs that Olliemania is fading), but it did not help his Commander in Chief, who professed not to know what his National Security Council staff aide had been up to. National Security Adviser John Poindexter's insistence that "the buck stops here with me" on the diversion of profits from the Iran arms sales to the contras meant that investigators had not found a "smoking gun" in the President's hand. But many Americans found the admiral's tale too tall to be credible. Polls showed that a majority...
...become even more troubling. The Iranian arms deals and covert contra supply operations, dubious enough on their own, were part of a larger, even more insidious pattern: the establishment of a runaway foreign policy that relied on lies and deceptions to function outside the rule of law. Could the buck for such an apparatus really have stopped with John Poindexter...