Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make this season successful, Harvard will have to use its quickness. It's a small team in size, not just numbers, so the Crimson can't get into any muscle-fests. Instead, Harvard has to have a fast counterattack, and in the set offenses, the team will try to run picks and other timing plays...
WASHINGTON, D.C: After watching Bob Dole surge to within five points of him in the latest polls with a strong post-convention bounce, Bill Clinton began his counterattack Tuesdayby signing a bill increasing the minimum wage to $4.75 an hour. The ceremony on the White House South Lawn, attended by cabinet officials and minimum wage workers, is part of an elaborately scripted legislative run-up to the Democratic National Convention. Later this week, the President will sign a welfare overhaul bill and a measure that enhances health care coverage for working Americans. How will the Dole camp counter? "Dole will...
...near future year, humongous spaceships enter the Earth's atmosphere, hover over major cities around the globe, then send out a heat ray that pulverizes every urban center. Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Moscow--all barbecued. On July 3 the U.S. President (Bill Pullman) plots his counterattack with the aid of a computer genius (Jeff Goldblum), an Air Force pilot (Will Smith) and all their surviving relatives. By July 4, ID4 has soared into flyboy heaven for the climactic dogfight between Us and the Evil Other. You saw the movie's trailer--didn't it promise you fireworks...
...Washington side, Warner remains the choice of Republican barons. Bob Dole and his likely successor as majority leader, Trent Lott, have helped him raise an intimidating war chest. On the Virginia side the party is dominated by Buchanan-style conservatives who want the senior Senator's scalp. His counterattack is to twit Miller for accepting his help two years ago and to cast his own deviations from conservative orthodoxy as principled ones. "It is the way I have lived my life," Warner says. But his advertising betrays his nervousness. A sailor in World War II and a Marine officer...
INDEPENDENCE DAY (July 3). Illegal aliens invade Congress; President unites America by marshaling a counterattack. Satire or prophecy for campaign '96? Or just a safety valve--a chance to vent our paranoia in the 'plexes, where it belongs...