Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strategy. it was the strategy itself. Apart from taking off his tie and giving the best speech of his life, Dole had no plan. The candidate kept the campaign manager off balance, and the campaign manager did the same to everyone else. Reed wouldn't let anyone get closer to Dole than he was, yet made little out of whatever closeness he did forge with the candidate...
...Massachusetts, Republican Peter Blute tried to protect himself against the assault with a TV ad that showed the Congressman with his arms draped over pictures of Clinton and Gingrich. "When he wanted to fight crime, I voted with him," said Blute, pointing to Clinton's picture, which moved closer and closer to the candidate. Then "when he wanted to balance the budget, I voted with him"; Newt's picture moved toward Blute. "But when he wanted to increase taxes, I voted against him"; Clinton's picture faded into the distance. "And when he wanted to cut education, I voted against...
Under Riley's restructuring of the department, the CID detectives have also developed a closer working relationship with HUPD officers...
...will all this go at Givenchy? There will be some sort of culture clash but, McQueen promises, "no bumsters." He believes the refinement of his tailoring makes him a worthy heir to Hubert de Givenchy: "The line of the body and the tailoring make it closer to what he was about, with his training with Balenciaga." As for the cost of couture, McQueen calls it just a fact of life. "If it requires 83 hours for a person to sit there beading a dress," he says, "that's it. Take it or leave...
Ironically, the record is held by Brown (not this year's team) and the Crimson would love nothing more than to advance a step closer to the mark by beating the school it is chasing. This is one of the motivations the Crimson will use to "get up" for this game...