Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into an airport or restaurant these days without an admirer's stopping to scold him about his refusal to run for President. He sometimes responds, only half jokingly, that he would have to give up too much influence. As Education Secretary for President Reagan and drug czar for President Bush, Bennett spent eight years around the White House. "And I can't imagine," he says, "how being President could be more interesting than all the things I'm doing...
...think that the undecideds could go one way or the other." --GEORGE BUSH...
...force its way into the presidential campaign because the burning of flags had become so widespread that public order, not to speak of air quality, was in peril. There were even fewer people involved in flag burning than there are in "partial birth" abortions, a 1996 wedge hypothetical. George Bush was merely looking for another way to call Michael Dukakis a "card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U...
...worst increases came during the "Bush recession" of the early '90s. Between 1991 and 1994, the average state-university tuition went up at least 10% a year. Since 1980, the cost in most states has tripled or quadrupled. Today the price of a state university education is distinctly not nominal. The average total cost for a year of public higher education is $9,285. At the world-class, "flagship" state universities, costs are approaching the private-university level. Next year the University of California at Berkeley will cost more than $13,818 and the University of Virginia an estimated...
...himself, as just an ordinary man running for president. Dole's Senate legacy is pragmatic, one not so much of crafting brilliant legislative initiatives, as getting them passed. In 1965, he teamed up with Senator George McGovern to salvage the faltering food stamps program. In 1990 he brought President Bush around to support the Americans With Disabilities Act, although the legislation bears the name of Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin. In 1982, Dole almost single-handedly reversed a large chunk of Reagan tax cuts in an attempt to control a ballooning deficit, and in 1983 he helped orchestrate the bailout...