Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shining armor blasted off to the rescue of Mir today. Commander Anatoly Solovyov and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov are racing to the troubled space station to perform vital repairs ? and they were never more needed. True to form, Mir's oxygen generators broke down this morning. TIME's Dick Thompson says this latest mishap is no cause for alarm: "To the Russians, this is just life as normal," he says. The two cosmonauts are expected to dock Thursday...
...using his line-item veto to remove a pro-tobacco provision that Republicans sneaked in at the last minute. Clinton knows that any veto would have caused "political misery," says TIME's Jef McAllister, by undoing the delicate bipartisan balance of the hard-won budget deal. Minority leader Dick Gephardt told the White House he would try, in later legislation, to undo the provision making tobacco industry penalties tax-deductible ? when nobody's looking...
...hear Dick Morris wants to help...
...word) politics. In a political climate that has made increased government spending taboo, the tax code is the best remaining means to hand out rewards to constituents. This is why even Republicans who were whooping it up for a flat tax last year (for instance, House majority leader Dick Armey) are now advocating a change as complex as indexing capital gains for inflation (Armey again). That's also why the new tax bill is being stuffed with special breaks for everyone from whaling captains to sky divers...
...Dick Morris has written that for a couple of summers, the Clintons went West because a Morris survey had found that voters would look more kindly on a vacation that included hiking and camping out. Given my own camping experiences, the way I would have interpreted those findings was that American voters were saying, "If I have to try to sleep on the hard ground while being eaten by mosquitoes, why shouldn...