Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to fight city hall, but in Santa Monica, Calif., you can interrogate it by computer. Last week the city's new Public Electronic Network went on-line. As brochures mailed to residents advertised, PEN allows any citizen with a computer and a modem to communicate with city hall. Those who do not have a home computer can use any one of 20 public terminals set up at libraries and recreational centers...
Bush, for whom loyalty is close to a religion, quickly announced that he would carry the fight to the Senate floor. A vote by the full chamber may take place this week, assuming Tower does not take the White House off the hook by withdrawing. Considering that the Democrats hold a 55-to-45 majority -- and that, for all the sanctimonious clucking about Tower's personal habits, last week's vote was overtly partisan -- Bush is likely to suffer a second and perhaps more damaging loss...
...violators of that rule could be identified, the President declared, "I would like to kick some serious hide." Though a barrage of calls on Tower's behalf from Quayle in the White House failed to swing the committee vote, the President planned to re-enter the fight as soon as he returned from Asia and to meet with as many as ten Democrats who might succumb to personal wooing...
Tonight at Bright Center, the bell rings for round two of the Harvard-RPI fight. And the odds run about the same as they did for the Mike Tyson-Frank Bruno fight...
Tower has said he has no intention of giving upthe fight for confirmation and has vowed to giveup drinking if he becomes defense secretary...