Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fiercely his campaign advisers beg him, Dole has so much trouble telling the story of what happened to him and how he survived it. "I don't know if it's generational," he said once of the reluctance to traffic in tragedy for political advantage. Dole, like George Bush and millions of other World War II veterans, left too many friends behind in unmarked graves to consider themselves heroes; they consider themselves lucky...
...billion maker of such brands as Anacin and Preparation H, launched an assault on Tylenol last week. The company paid for a full-page ad in the New York Times and other papers to reprint an open letter written by Antonio Benedi, a former appointments secretary for George Bush, who blames Tylenol for the liver failure that forced him to have an emergency transplant...
...million, allowing East St. Louis to reduce property levies 30%, slash its debt, double the number of police officers and patrol cars, and thus cut the murder rate by a third. The boat, with 1,250 workers, is now the city's largest employer. Says Mayor Gordon Bush: "It is bringing about the city's renaissance...
...geography were truly destiny when it comes to public speaking, clips of Dole campaign appearances would not bring to mind 1992 stump talks by George Bush of Greenwich, Connecticut, whose approach to public discourse inspired me to write, in a farewell poem to him, "Your predicates were often prone/ To wander, nounless, off alone...
...last weekend, where opinion polls show Dole trailing President Clinton by a fair margin, Dole has been taking on "old veto Bill" in his speeches. TIME Washington correspondent Tamala Edwards says Dole is really beginning the general campaign in California, and that he will not repeat the mistake George Bush made in 1992 by tacitly acknowledging defeat in that state. On the trail, Dole told Republican crowds: "We're not going to write off California. It's going to be 'right on,' not 'write off.'" Despite photo-op stump stops at a San Quentin gas chamber and the Mexican border...