Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those resculpting the political and social landscape of America at large. They just happened to have converged with their greatest intensity in the West, where private and public interests clash directly and daily, typically over such visceral issues as land and water. The angry rebels range from ranchers fed up with bureaucrats' telling them when and where to graze their cattle to developers denied crucial water rights. "We're talking about things that go right down to the heart," says Nebraska Governor Ben Nelson, a Democrat and chairman of the Western Governors' Association. Although a moderate, he confesses that...
...threat to Japan has receded, many Okinawans have lost patience with daily live-fire exercises, roaring F-15 jets and rowdy American service members. Polls show that as many as 80% of the islanders want the bases either closed or greatly reduced in size. "The people," says Ota, "are fed up with the problems that go with living so close to huge bases in a small area...
...politics, as in poetry, tone is fundamental. Citizens expect their governments not only to govern, but to do so with frankness, gravity and calm. Small wonder then that so many Americans are fed up with the ever more strident tone of contemporary politics...
...entry in my notebook for May 18 is significant. "Contact 0805. 1 V.C. KIA..." We had been patrolling a gorge fed by a rushing stream that covered up our noise. For once, our point squad spotted the V.C. before they spotted us. For once, we did the ambushing. We nailed them. A hail of fire dropped several V.C., and the rest fled. We approached gingerly. One man lay motionless on the ground, the first Viet Cong that I could definitely confirm we had killed in action. He lay on his back, gazing up at us with sightless eyes...
...clearly gone to school on Dwight Eisenhower. The comparison here is between two politicians, not two generals. All during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the nation wondered whether Ike would seek the White House--as a Democrat or Republican didn't matter. Ike professed no interest but stealthily fed the boomlet, as recounted by his biographer Stephen Ambrose, who also happens to be a key cog in the draft-Powell movement. "To be a successful candidate," Ambrose has written, Ike "had to appear not to be a candidate. His speeches had to be forceful without being controversial, seeking...