Word: flex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...G.O.P. for the first time in 40 years. In all, not a single incumbent Republican Senator, Representative or Governor lost. Jubilant party leaders reveled in the political revolution -- on the one hand openly stretching out an arm of cooperation to the President, on the other eagerly preparing to flex their invigorated conservative muscles. Following the devastating-to-Democ rats results, a humbled and reflective President gladly took up the offer of cooperation on issues like welfare reform and streamlining government but promised to stand firm and fight on matters of "conviction" like education, gun control and jobs...
...which will put the base out of commission for just a month. Yet, it represented a dramatic departure from previous "pinprick" NATO attacks in which one or two warplanes bombed individual pieces of Serb hardware, saysTIME Brussels Bureau Chief Jay Branegan. "NATO is quite pleased to be able to flex some muscle after a year of complaining to the United Nations, which has always wanted to minimize the use of force to protect its own troops," says Branegan.The successful attack prompted praise from President Clinton -- who called it "a good step in the right direction" -- and from U.S. allies like...
Speaking on behalf of our "audience," he asserts that "Harvard students are intelligent enough to realize when they're troubled." According to David Goldbrenner, the posters represent not "a genuine effort to help the troubled" but an attempt by psych majors to flex, which simply alienates the afore-mentioned "troubled...
...stuck with a two-party system that has no room to flex. The minority party always spouts the same line--"First elect us, then things will start to happen!" To ensure that election, the minority party tries to block every bit of majority legislation that could be viewed as a partisan victory...
...that win, the Harvard defense, which kept the Crimson in the game last week against Cornell and has the ability to shut down Colgate, must flex itself from the outset...