Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...operations were two blocks and a few legal documents removed from Republican headquarters, it was just an extension of the party. Barbour was chairman of the forum; G.O.P. officials set its $4 million annual budget and coordinated fund raising. The forum circulated 600,000 questionnaires to identify the hot-button issues that were later assembled into the Contract with America...
...career and the reason for raising children. Ironically, I had been making many decision in my life based on feminine stereotypes--I would do the opposite of what the stereotypes stated that I should do. I would pretend I hated children. I would never even sew a button on a skirt. I would wear slippers and my pajamas (or jeans) to class all the time...
When Timothy McVeigh enters the Denver courtroom of Judge Richard Matsch, he does not behave at all as you would expect, given the rigid, blank-faced image he projected at his arrest. He usually emerges from the holding cell for defendants with a big smile. Wearing a button-down shirt and khaki pants, his hands in his pockets, he struts toward the defense table. On his way, he makes eyes at female paralegals and chats with them. He nods and grins at the press and the prosecutors. McVeigh is accused of killing 168 people, 19 of them children...
...1980s. But like Clinton, who wooed back the Reagan Democrats, Blair is leading because he is recapturing those Labour voters who strayed to the Tories as their wallets thickened. It is hardly surprising, then, to hear Blair say that he is not "about to press the rewind button and return to the 1970s" or that he believes "Margaret Thatcher's emphasis on free enterprise was right...
EAGLE, Colorado: DNA tests have confirmed that Captain Craig Button was in his A-10 Thunderbolt when it crashed in the Colorado Rockies. Wreckage of the plane and fragments of body parts were found Friday in the rugged mountains south of I-70, ending a three-week search. National Guardsmen will continue looking for the four 500-pound bombs the plane was carrying. But officials say that deep snow may have erased so many clues that they may never know why Button's plane left formation to fly 800 miles off course before crashing...