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...long hypothesized about the true meaning of those three letters. "Creepy Vicious Sores?" you speculate as you compare prices on moustache bleach. "Cosmic Viking Shit?" you muse while examining the selection of jelly beans. Not to disappoint, but CVS in fact stands for "Consumer Value Stores." (We know--not as exciting as "Can Veritones Squeal...
Born said the austerity measures appeared to disappoint even Republican city leaders...
...Jackson both yearn to advance an ambitious agenda, even if that means playing the spoiler. Each is a failed presidential candidate with no realistic chance to win the White House, but each muses about running under the right circumstances. For Jackson, those include a weakened President who continues to disappoint his party's left wing. For Perot, the lure would be the G.O.P.'s failure to keep its promise of revolutionary reform...
...Monday, Christine Todd Whitman slashed taxes in New Jersey. On Tuesday, as the first Governor asked to give the official rebuttal to a State of the Union address, she started cutting into Bill Clinton. From a partisan point of view, she did not disappoint, starting with an off-the-cuff jab at the 81- minute speech. ``I am not going to ask for equal time,'' she joshed. But long after Clinton's speech, pundits and political operatives were still mulling over Whitman. Might this be the G.O.P.'s 1996 vice-presidential candidate...
Neither, from all evidence, is Ryder. She sounds perfectly normal, if anyone is these days. "I want everyone to like me," she says. "I don't want to disappoint anyone. I hate not getting along, or being forced into a confrontation, or throwing what looks like a tantrum. The bottom line is, I'm like everyone else...