Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington is a city of midlife compromises. Bright-eyed young men and women flock to the capital, as they have since the New Deal, not because they want to make money but because they want to act on their political beliefs. They enter government; they master a specialty; they amass a Rolodex. Then maybe their party loses power or they find themselves lusting after a BMW on a bureaucrat's salary. Suddenly the former idealists are in the private sector, bartering what they learned in government in their new roles as lawyers, lobbyists, public relations consultants...
...Russian Federation. One of our people was sent to Bulgaria and instructed to inform a German contact there that the Soviet Union was willing to make some territorial concessions. There was never any answer from Hitler. Apparently, he felt the Soviet Union's days were numbered. Why enter into negotiations when everything was practically his anyway...
...Enter John Silber, president of Boston University, a Reaganite Democrat who has long advertised his disdain for Dukakis. Silber tossed off offensive remarks -- toward bureaucrats, the elderly, feminists, ghetto residents, Jews -- the way most candidates distribute campaign buttons. But he came across as an exemplar of change (and anger) at a moment when voters hungered for nothing but. In the end, his laser lip earned him the same anti-politician cachet that has propelled the cowboy campaign of Clayton Williams, the Republican candidate for Governor in Silber's native state of Texas. Silber, like Williams, is viewed as a populist...
When they graduate, most of these students will enter another officer training program before being assigned to military action. Not all ROTC members are immediately assigned active duty, but many may find themselves in the Gulf next year if the crisis escalates...
...overconfident Dartmouth team didn't enter two of its top three runners. "I don't see how they expected to win with the team they fielded," Harvard Captain Rob Benjamin said. "Maybe it was a lack of respect, or maybe they just wanted to rest their top runners...