Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LAST YEAR THE REPUBLICAN FRESHMEN rolled into Washington toting the Contract with America and vowing to dilute and roll back decades of laws and regulations, including those aimed at ensuring clean air, clean water and unsullied wilderness areas. But because they misread popular sentiment on the environment, the G.O.P. took a beating in the polls on this issue. Now as many as 91 House Republicans are voting with the Democrats on environmental measures. Shortly after the House reconvenes this week, Speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to announce the formation of a task force to review the Republican approach...
...never seen my room this clean before," said Diallo M. Riddle '97 of Pforzheimer House. "I'm usually more organic in my habits...
...have to [clean] right now," Leverett House's Christopher J. Mutrie '97 said last night. "We have to get the bikes out of the common room. And I guess this box of oranges...
...President and does not account for his rise. Instead, his trick has been to turn a liability (he has little money for TV ads) into something of an asset (he isn't running those attack ads that voters say they hate.) What's more, Alexander retains this Mr. Clean image even while running a campaign that is subtly negative. As Dole points out, Alexander was the first of the G.O.P. candidates to run an attack ad, back in September, against Pete Wilson, whom he accused of sins ranging from tax increases to flip-flopping on affirmative action. But Alexander...
...lower-middle-class Middle America. Buchanan, an accountant's son from the sleepy, segregated Washington of the 1940s, falls roughly into the same range as the other two. It isn't ideology either. Two of the three are Republicans, and two are moderates; we still don't have a clean division into three categories...