Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...familiar statistical duel has erupted over who would benefit from the relief. Republicans insist that 75% of the House cuts go to families making less than $75,000; Democrats say 70% of the cuts go to the richest 20% of Americans. (Both sides use self-serving methodology.) Gingrich wants a deal. "We are going to do everything we can to get the bill signed," he says. But a concession to Clinton on, say, capital gains could cost Newt conservative support. And getting a good deal from Clinton is never easy. "If [Republicans] think Lucy's going to keep the football...
...number of smokers declines in the U.S., however, look for a market-share duel to the death. When cigarette advertising on TV and radio was barred in the early 1970s, RJR's Winston was the household name in cigarettes. Philip Morris adapted better to print, though, and boosted its Marlboro brand to prominence. RJR needs to regain some ground, but it won't be easy. "We'll all be jockeying for position in Playboy and Penthouse," an RJR insider quips. Adult magazines are among the few places the tobacco companies would continue to advertise...
...Tigers won the first two games of the best-of-three series. Harvard shot itself in the foot in the first game, committing four errors in a 15-6 loss. In the second game, sophomore Quinn Schafer, then a freshman, was bested in a 1-0 pitcher's duel...
...Crimson saved the drama for the fourth and final game of the series, clinching the sweep with a four-run seventh after a 1-1 pitchers' duel through...
...four years, the Vice President has been shown at his finest when putting himself in the line of fire for his President--whether it was breaking a tie vote in Congress to rescue Clinton's economic program in 1993, or demolishing Ross Perot in a TV duel to save the North American Free Trade Agreement. But now Clinton is looking toward a spot in the history books, and Gore toward one at the top of the Democratic ticket in 2000. To bolster his legacy, Clinton must make choices that could infuriate the most loyal and active Democrats, the ones whose...