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Word: draggings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grow our way out of this mess is absolute nonsense. If Bush really believes he can do what has to be done without cutting into entitlements and defense and without raising at least some taxes, then he's smoking something. And if he thinks we Democrats are going to drag him kicking and screaming into taxland and take all the heat alone, then he's dreaming as well as smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Has Lips Too | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Despite earning $1.2 million last year in salary and stock options, Stempel remains at heart a grease monkey who reads car-buff magazines, counts race-car driver A.J. Foyt among his friends and won a collection of drag-racing trophies in his youth. His one concession to corporate security: letting a chauffeur handle the 40-minute drive to work from his home in a posh suburb north of Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Stempel: Man in The Hot Seat | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...Senior Tony Hinz (broken hand) is not expected to play. His two-week absence has meant more carries for Art McMahon (126 yards rushing two weeks ago) and Jim Reidy (76 yards rushing and 97 yards receiving against Boston University). Reidy is explosive and durable--a hard guy to drag down on the first hit. He's only 5-ft., 9-in., but can bowl over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scouting Report | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...union and the University cannot agree on key contract points, the process coud drag on for more than a year, and may even result in a strike, according to labor experts. Furthermore, workers could petition the National Labor Relations Board after one year to decertify the union if a contract is not reached...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Union Faces Challenge In Contract Negotiation | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

Quayle, who shows up as a drag on theRepublican ticket in virtually all the polls,declined invitations to appear on networktelevision and campaigned yesterday in Virginia,one of the safest Republican states where a newpoll showed Bush with a 56-25 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Days Show Race Tightening | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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