Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chair of Gary Hart's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns, Schroeder did not contemplate running until after her fellow Coloradan dropped out last May. She took a long look at the remaining contenders and figured, "Why not?" Says Schroeder: "I've been in national politics longer than anyone else except Biden. I have as many legislative achievements. I've been to every hot spot on the globe." She insists she will not enter the field unless she can raise $2 million and pull together a "realistic, serious" campaign by fall. "It's a bloody lot of work," Schroeder shrugs...
...former PTL executive, "didn't know how to balance his own checkbook." Executive turnover was constant. PTL repeatedly switched legal advisers and accounting firms. Under Bakker, PTL at one point had 47 bank accounts and 17 vice presidents, with financial control split into four separate departments. Thus no one except Bakker and his closest aides had an overall view of the ministry and its money...
...then, La Bamba isn't about the 1950s at all. It's more about how our generation impersonates the world of three decades ago. Nor is it about the Hispanic experience, except to the extent that a night at Chi Chi's is like a night in Tijuana...
...Except Donna isn't really beautiful, and barely pretty. Her main attraction seems to be her Anglo looks, especially her blond hair and blue eyes. That she is wealthy and has a racist father no doubt adds to her appeal...
...title of this first novel is a trifle misleading. Rick Wheeler, an RC Cola salesman in western Massachusetts, owns very little except a tense marriage with Paige, his wife of five years. In the past, after fights in their small apartment, Rick could escape by driving across the state line to Vermont, where Paige has never been, hence a place that he can claim as his alone. Now even that consolation seems pointless. Six months after her miscarriage, which has driven Rick into self-absorbed guilt and silence, Paige has moved out. The question of whether this marriage...