Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They thought they would win or lose outright by now. They didn't think three [third-place finishes] would keep them alive." When Alexander failed to place second in New Hampshire, he lost his shot at the big-name endorsements his aides had been touting. Top Florida Republican Jeb Bush was poised to embrace him two days before that primary; but the family's two other kingmakers talked him out of it. Jeb's older brother, Texas Governor George W. Bush, and his father, former President George Bush, urged him to wait and see what happened in New Hampshire...
...education Alexander revived the 1992 "G.I. Bill for Kids" he wrote as Bush's Education Secretary, which offers vouchers of up to $2,000 for low-income children to use for private school. Like many G.O.P. reformers, Alexander wants to shake up the public-education monopoly and give poor kids a choice, a model that has shown promise in experiments like one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Still, if Alexander means it when he says trapping kids in bad schools is "incomprehensible," his $1 billion plan, which would reach less than 6% of the 9 million poor kids between the ages...
WHEN TWO CHILDREN FROM THE remote village of Mayibout, in Gabon, discovered a dead chimpanzee lying in the undergrowth near their home a few weeks ago, they were delighted. Bush meat is a delicacy throughout the rain forests of central Africa, and chimps are particularly prized for their size and scarcity. Villagers helped carry the primate back to Mayibout, where it was skinned, cooked and eaten. There the festivities ended. Within a week, nearly all those who had prepared the animal for the pot had fallen ill with a high fever. Some began bleeding from the eyes and mouth...
...activist Sam LaBudde galvanized public opinion by releasing dramatic videos of drowning dolphins. In 1990, StarKist, the world's largest tuna canner, responding to consumer sentiment, announced that it would buy only tuna caught by other methods. That same year, LaBudde's group, Earth Island Institute, successfully sued the Bush Administration to bar tuna imports from Mexico and other Latin American countries that failed to protect dolphins. European nations followed suit, which extended the embargo to an estimated 80% of the canned-tuna consumer market...
Ogwama (Tonika Cheek '99), recently widowed, has violated a serious law which mandates a specified period of mourning. Rather than pay the proper respects to her husband's spirit which mysteriously "still wanders in the bush," she cavorts with Uloko (Jerry Legagneur '98), a fellow villager, and soon becomes pregnant...