Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, Michael J. Bush '99 greeted constituents from atop a throne of beer cans in front of the science center. He finished third in the race overall...
...done work for two presidents, too--Bush and Clinton," Georgs says...
...Thursday's New Hampshire debate, George W. Bush has a message for his opponents: Get ready for the coming of a kinder, gentler Ronald Reagan. The evidence: a bold tax plan that puts his money where his "compassionate conservatism" sound bite is, tempering supply-side Reaganomics with aid to the working poor. It includes a $1.3 trillion tax cut over 10 years, with extra relief to poor families. The plan received a conservative blessing Wednesday in the form of a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, which said "the Bush plan at least moves in the Reagan direction and realizes...
...Achilles' heel: Bush will be left open to criticism because he couldn't find room for a capital gains tax cut. "Steve Forbes will attack it as a half-measure, as a tweaking of the system, not an overhaul," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. But the bigger problems could come in a general election. Recent polls show that voters are more concerned with further reducing the national debt and shoring up Medicare and education than with tax cuts. So while wooing much of his own party, Bush could alienate many of the "Reagan Democrats" who are less concerned with...
...Bush was unable to name the heads of state of four countries of particular importance to U.S. foreign policy--Pakistan, India, Chechnya, and Taiwan--prompting a wave of monologue jokes and whispers about Bush's competency...