Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight over who controlled the message masked a sharper debate over what Dole's message should be. Sipple & Co. wanted a clean shot: tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. Reed argued that Sipple should sell a broader vision, the whole picnic of budget balancing and tax cuts and spending proposals that Dole laid out before the convention. Dole himself wanted to do the hard thing, offer not just the tax cuts but the specific plans to pay for them. When the ad finally aired, tax cuts were third on the list after spending cuts and a balanced budget, and Sipple...
...service, has declared himself a born-again Christian. ("There's such a thing as having too much fun," he concluded after years of arduous research.) Geraldo Rivera, who pioneered the craft of filing video dispatches from the primordial ooze, now bemoans the filth of daytime TV and vows to clean up his act. ("I'm sick of the garbage that is on.") A p.r. executive whose past clients include Michael Jackson is leading a campaign to build a "Statue of Responsibility" as counterpoint to the Statue of Liberty--and to build it in Southern California, no less...
...year high. It all makes perfect sense to board economist Delos Smith, who says, "People are using plastic to buy all sorts of things, and they feel good about it." But as that debt mounts, more than 1 million people are expected to wipe their slates clean in bankruptcy court this year...
...asked them not to. He had to agree to stay in bed for eight days without moving. The view he had out his window was of a brick wall. He could see only the wall, but he imagined that above the wall was a roof, and above that a clean sky. "I had this fantasy about climbing the brick wall, then up the roof, then a running start and away...
...spirit of the buffalo that is about to give up its life. A few bison look up from their grazing as a pickup truck churns slowly across the field. Then the crack of a rifle scatters the herd: Rocky Afraid-of-Hawk drops a yearling bull with one clean shot. The teenage warriors, dressed in Fila sneakers and No Fear sweatshirts, scramble in for a closer look as the older men skin the carcass. Later the meat will be hung to dry at the traveling teepee village that these kids are calling home for the summer...