Word: dose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quayle's critics reacted the same way to his attempt to infuse a dose of morals back into politics. Granted, the date on the medicine had expired around...
Financially strapped cities can expect a dose of comfort this summer. Congress approved a $1.1 billion urban-aid bill initially developed as an emergency appropriation package after the Los Angeles riots. Much of the funding will go to two agencies that provided disaster relief in L.A., but $500 million has been set aside for 360,000 summer jobs for youths in 75 cities. An additional urban-assistance program is likely to follow...
...overcome with ennui that the major parties are canceling campaign events for lack of attendance. Posters and banners can hardly be seen in the streets. And Shamir's Likud is moaning that the Venezuelan soap opera Crystal is drawing the party's natural constituency away from the nightly dose of televised party propaganda...
...suicides of two chronically ill women in October, Jack Kevorkian has again charged into the center of the debate over physician-assisted death. According to Geoffrey Fieger, his lawyer, the Detroit doctor counseled Susan Williams, 52, for months and was at her side last week when she took a dose of "self-administered carbon monoxide." Williams suffered from severe multiple sclerosis that had left her incapacitated and blind. "Her life, for all intents and purposes, was meaningless," said Fieger. He insisted that his client, the inventor of a suicide machine, had not assisted in the death. Fieger said Kevorkian would...
...heavy dose of feigned compassion, coupled with appeals for law and order, is only half the game plan. The other half, already on full display, is designed to nail Bill Clinton, and it too borrows from an old Nixon campaign maxim: It is not what the opposition candidate actually stands for, it is what he can be made to appear to stand for. The President has backed away from his spokesman's attack on the Great Society, but he has repeated the charge that Clinton represents a return to the failed, big-spending solutions Lyndon Johnson favored. As congressional Democrats...