Word: citron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though Treasurer Robert Citron was the only elected Democrat in the government of affluent and archconservative Orange County, California, he seemed almost to own his job. People liked his folksy habit of sending out tax bills with slogans that rhymed ("Taxes paid on time never draw fines"). And they really liked the remarkably high returns that Citron earned on the billions of dollars of county funds that he managed -- income that paid for such things as gang-busting police drives in a time of tight budgets. It was thus not surprising that Citron easily won a seventh term this...
...past two weeks, print and broadcast news editors who normally scorn supermarket tabloids have struggled over how to cover a story engineered by one, concerning a top-priority subject: presidential politics. When the Star, its cover splashed with scarlet, citron and purple, asserted that Gennifer Flowers enjoyed a 12-year affair with Democratic candidate Bill Clinton -- in an issue that also retailed movie star Harrison Ford's "brush with death" (resulting in four stitches) and a household "ghostbusting" by rocker Joseph McIntyre of New Kids on the Block -- "real" journalists scoffed. The interview with Flowers was tainted, they said...