Word: enough
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Until recently the press seized on every blooper as underscoring his lack of heft. A few published put-downs were inaccurate, including a joke reported as fact -- that he thought Latin is the language of Latin America. Still, Quayle commits enough miscues on his own to supply critics with ammunition. Addressing the United Negro College Fund, whose motto is "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," he lost himself in a self-indicting verbal fog: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind. How true that...
...obvious rejoinder, if he remembered the headlines of 1961, was to say at least he never accepted carfare from a fixer for listening to the pitch. That was Moe's only confessed involvement in a point-shaving mess at the University of North Carolina, but it was enough for the N.B.A. to deem him an undesirable player. Naturally, all is forgotten...
...President Bush's tough savings-and-loan bailout bill last week, there was nothing wimpy about his response. As the House debated the legislation, the President corralled congressional leaders and took his cause to the people. "It is time for the American public and our Administration to say that enough is enough," Bush said. If the House weakened the stringent new regulations of the bill, the President warned, he would veto it. By week's end Bush prevailed when the House approved a strong bailout bill by a vote of 320 to 97. In all, 46 Republicans voted against...
...opinion. On Tuesday Congress sent legislation to the White House calling for a $1.20-an-hour increase, to $4.55, by 1992. Less than an hour later, 35,000 ft. over Wyoming aboard Air Force One, the President vetoed the bill. Bush has insisted that $4.25 an hour is enough...
...French Open was a triumph. To do it at 17 was a wonder. But Michael Chang seemed to grasp more than just the moment when he beat Ivan Lendl and Stefan Edberg in Paris to join the company of world-champion tennis players. Chang was wise enough to understand, "These two weeks are going to stay with me the rest of my life," but excited enough to imagine, "Maybe someday I'll be able to achieve something greater." More than a few days later, the sport is still tingling with his possibilities...