Word: cereal
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Busting loose. While waiting to do a satellite interview, George Bush asked a reporter if he had seen a Johnny Carson sketch that parodied Bush's tense interview with Dan Rather. The V.P. repeated the piece, in which a man confronts his wife over the question of his breakfast cereal. "Where are my Charms?" he asks. "I traded them for sausages," replied Bush, now playing the wife. "You traded Charms for sausages? How could you?" demands the husband. "I wouldn't want my entire career as a housewife judged on that one trade. You wouldn't want your entire career...
...Tampa. Craig Fuller, Bush's smooth and efficient White House chief of staff, knocks on the door of the Vice President's suite at the Sheraton Grand Hotel. Bush, who has been up for 45 minutes, is eating a breakfast of cereal, fruit and yogurt. Fuller provides the latest breakdown from Tuesday's nonbinding Vermont primary (Bush has beaten Dole 49% to 39%) and then runs through the themes to be stressed during the five-state swing today: strong defense and "stability." Each day the campaign carefully focuses its message on a simple idea. Fuller reminds Bush to avoid mentioning...
...dial a phone number. You can flip a coin 2.3 times. You can pour enough milk for your cereal or try to write the concluding sentence of a paper that's due in five minutes. You could also run a red light. Or even think 4.1 thoughts...
...exhibit has jazzed-up Cubes, with pictures of E.T., world flags, Prince Charles, and even Chex cereal on the sides instead of colors. But the most challenging puzzle in the six-sided genre seemed to be the five-by-five-by-five cube, one of only 20,000 specimens ever made...
...argue that political issues were discussed with the intensity of whether to ask the dining halls to provide cereal at every meal. Yet, your reporter noted that there were "45 minutes of heated debate" at the council meeting in which the open meeting was discussed...