Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first lawsuit by a state seeking to recoup the cost of health care for smoking-related illness. In spite of his professed wonderment that "little ole Mississippi" has taken the lead, it's fully in character for this aggressive and self-promoting prosecutor who got his start battling Gulf Coast corruption, and personally packed a gun to go on a drug raid. Moore, probably the most popular elected official in his state right now, is considering a run for Governor or Senator. Washington may call first, especially if Attorney General Janet Reno is a no-show in a second Clinton...
Meanwhile, at the reform Party's convention 94 miles up the California coast in Long Beach, Ross Perot, cantankerous reformer, seemed to be taking on a higher role altogether: miracle worker. Two speakers who introduced Perot before the crowd of 1,500 claimed nothing less than his lifesaving powers. Perot worker Debbie Kraus told of her sister, who in April was found to have an inoperable brain tumor--until Perot had her flown in his private jet to a team of Dallas neurosurgeons, who discovered a treatable aneurysm. Ex-sergeant David Campbell, who suffered near fatal wounds in the Gulf...
...false positive tests for explosives. The FBI will have to gather a lot more evidence before they can say definitively that a bomb or a missile destroyed the plane." Such evidence would be crucial to any court case, meaning that divers will continue their grim search off the coast of Long Island for some time to come. -->