Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they don't have a veto on this." Then he became even more blunt, handicapping his opponents for the Republican nomination, counting the ways in which he was stronger. Dan Quayle, he predicted, won't be able to raise enough money to compete. Neither would Elizabeth Dole, whose candidacy Bush called a relief because she drew some of the heat away from him. Steve Forbes and his bottomless checkbook worry Bush the most, but in the end, he concluded, Forbes isn't electable. At lunches like this one, staff members hand departing visitors a long, favorable article on Al Gore...
...subversion of the judicial system. If all this didn't amount at least to a high misdemeanor, what ever will? Now all the mendacious charmers out there will be looking for their chance. We have not seen the last of scoundrels with dazzling charisma. DUD GANN Cape Elizabeth, Maine...
Given the killers' barbarism, it is remarkable that more trekkers were not slain. Elizabeth Garland, 29, an anthropology student at the University of Chicago, remembered to turn off her wristwatch alarm while she lay fear-stricken in her tent; the raiders never found her. Another American, Linda Adams, 53, walked a mile toward a certain death with the other captives, then feigned an asthma attack and was let go. Deanja Walther, 26, a Swiss flight attendant who speaks French, stayed with the English-speaking hostages even though the Hutus let the French-speaking tourists remain at the camp. Walther...
...Gore, the impetus is the ability to focus more on his electability -- a proposition that looks more problematic at the moment than winning the Democratic nomination. For despite the current Republican disarray over whom to pick and where to take the GOP on issues, both George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole lead the vice president in the polls...
...Elizabeth Dole, of course, is the beneficiary of a famous name and of America's passion with gender politics. "The GOP would like nothing better than to be the first party to put a woman in the presidency -- or vice presidency," says Carney. But therein lies a problem for the party. Though Dole really wants to be president, she is currently in solid second place behind Bush and could eventually be amenable to the second spot on the ticket. Both Bush and Dole are moderates, though. "If it begins to look as if establishment candidates have a solid lock...