Word: foes
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...WELL THAT ENDS WELL, OR so the saying goes. At the end of this Shakespeare play, the girl gets the boy of her dreams, the boy is pardoned by his wealthy mother and patron king, and the ratty scoundrel becomes the dearest friend of his former foe. Sounds quite well, doesn...
...other three on his protectionist trade stance. But despite accusations that the tariffs that Buchanan supports would destroy a South Carolina revived by foreign investors like BMW, Buchanan held his ground. Dole in the end tried to move the focus away from his competition and toward a common foe: "This is about defeating Bill Clinton in 1996 and there is one candidate who can beat Bill Clinton in 1996 and that is Bob Dole...
Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is recruiting millionaires who can self-finance their runs for the Senate. This has stirred controversy in North Carolina, where Republican war horse Jesse Helms looks vulnerable and Helms' 1990 foe, Harvey Gantt, wants to make another run at him. Gantt has edged ahead of Helms in recent polls, yet Kerrey has encouraged Charlie Sanders, a former Glaxo chief executive, to run. Insiders say Kerrey touted Sanders to big Democratic contributors at a recent retreat in Aspen, Colorado. Officially, a Kerrey spokesman says both Gantt and Sanders...
That, at least, is the plan. But in the decade since Congress issued its death warrant, the stockpile has proved more wily a foe than Hannibal Lecter. As technical snafus have caused the deadline to be pushed back from 1994 to 2004, the estimated cost of incinerating 3.3 million chemical weapons has soared from $1.7 billion to $12 billion. At the same time, the risk of not destroying the stockpile grows exponentially as the weapons decay...
...chance that he does decide to make a go of it this year, Time Present, Time Past seems unlikely to jump-start a Bradley steamroller. Ever the gentleman, he writes about his Senate colleagues so blandly that even North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a bitter ideological foe, gets praised for being "courtly." Bradley is fiercely proud of his German and Scotch-Irish forebears, but in his tepid prose they come across as proto-suburbanites rather than daring pioneers...