Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In a sense, the political system is more at stake than the Social Security system. The problem is the sort that representative governments are not good at solving: a potential disaster that can be clearly foreseen but is not imminent, and that can be escaped only by accepting some present...
Sunny weather did little to assuage fears of further flooding today in waterlogged California. Following a week of killer rainstorms, clear skies brought the threat of fresh flooding as mountain snow started to melt into overflowing reservoirs, lakes and streams. Some 100 miles north of San Francisco, hundreds of people...
So this is how it feels to be the front runner. This is what it was like for Ronald Reagan in 1980, when Bob Dole was so far back in the pack that he barely rated mention. This is what it was like for George Bush in 1988, when Dole...
Gramm's problem is that unlike early front runner Bob Dole, he remains little known outside Texas and Washington. And though he is considered one of the most skilled manipulators of the media in politics, he is in some ways ill suited to national exposure. He is, by his own...
President Clinton today declared more than half of flood-ravaged California a disaster area. The move affects 39 of California's 59 counties, permitting their businesses and residents to seek federal disaster relief funds. Drenching rainstorms over much of the state have caused at least 12 deaths and an estimated...