Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Luzhkov, the campaign has been a bitter affair. He was looking forward to a double triumph--a landslide re-election in Moscow and nationwide recognition with Fatherland. Now he must be wondering how far the government will push corruption charges against him. He underestimated the determination with which the scandal-ridden Kremlin would fight to secure its future. Much like the war in Chechnya, which is designed to be a deterrent to other republics that are considering making a bid for independence, the harsh war on Fatherland has driven home the message that you need very strong nerves to challenge...
...attempts to drive the homeless from downtown, San Francisco has even arrested nuns serving hot meals in the United Nations Plaza--for lacking a proper permit. Most of the 20,000 citations reportedly issued this year by San Francisco have gone unpaid, yet the campaign has become a flash point in the city's mayoral election...
...presenting themselves as, if not flat-out stupid, at least aggressively nonintellectual. It's true that when Bush first got into the race he joked a bit about his academic shortcomings in college, and when his Yale transcript was printed in the New Yorker, the impact on his campaign seemed so negligible that I was moved to write a couplet that went, "Obliviously on he sails/With marks not quite as good as Quayle's." (The fact that those marks got him into the Harvard business school, by the way, is yet another reminder of which class of Americans has always...
...Chait is right, "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House" would be precisely the sort of slogan Bush's campaign should avoid. When reporters ask him questions designed to discover whether he really has read James Chace's biography of Dean Acheson, he shouldn't answer with some foreign-policy boilerplate from his stump speech. He should say, "Couldn't finish it. Too many long words...
...attack on the gunmakers, is patterned closely on the tobacco campaign and even involves some of the same lawyers. But the federal role is different this time. When the government finally sued the tobacco companies last September, it was more than a year after the states had concluded a far-reaching settlement with the industry. This time the feds are jumping in when they can make a difference, even after a year when Congress did nothing to further gun control. Some manufacturers, like Glock, said last week they would consider meeting with the Clinton Administration, while others--notably Sturm, Ruger...