Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Bush had an advantage in the election because he was speaking English and everyone else was speaking Greek, no pun intended," said Pittman, a Democrat...
...could be expected, ultra-conservative Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina lambasted the Administration's timidity, deriding Bush's entourage as the "Keystone Kops" and denouncing a "total lack of planning." More surprising were the Democrats who lined up to criticize the Administration's caution: in the past, many of them had espoused anti-interventionist sentiments in Nicaragua and toward the Navy escorts of Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts called the episode "a black mark on our diplomacy and our values." Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin declared, "We should...
Through it all, the Bush Administration defended its actions without apology. "It's easy to be an armchair general," Secretary of State James Baker said with evident irritation to his Capitol Hill critics. "You don't ((risk American lives)) on the basis of someone else's plans and in response to rapidly changing circumstances...
...aborted coup attempt in Panama raises disturbing questions about the Bush Administration's ability to respond to a crisis. -- After a series of concessions to the Democrats, Bush is wooing the right. -- Congress takes an expensive step toward a national family policy...
...carmakers, who contended that the clean-air standards would raise car prices and strain technical resources. The companies argued that auto exhaust is already 96% cleaner than it was before pollution-control measures were introduced two decades ago. Noting that the House limits would be tougher than those President Bush put forward in his clean-air package last summer, General Motors President Robert Stempel asserted, "For our business it would be extremely tough. It went further than the President proposed, and we're deciding how to handle...