Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stojko achieved higher elevation, and Candeloro's leaps were mighty, but both had bobbles. As two-time Olympic champion and TV commentator Dick Button put it, "The judges consider first whether you've completed your triples. After that, the overall impact of the program. Last of all comes skating: footwork, spins and musicality." If these priorities prevail, there will be more and more Stojkos and Candeloros at the top. Only the sky is their limit...
...coalition is still pushing, but it's not doing all the footwork," said member and Black Students Association Vice President Alvin L. Bragg '95. "It's more of a division of labor in terms of interest--and they tend to be broken into organizational lines, but it doesn't mean the coalition is not pushing for all the goals...
...music is a fickle muse; anyone can lose the knack. But Jackson lost touch. Not as a performer -- his falsetto and his footwork still dazzle -- but with his audience. His career went stratospheric, and he went extraterrestrial. He seemed like one of the exotic animals he keeps in his backyard habitat. For some imaginary Madame Tussaud's, he transformed himself into his own waxed, blanched figure...
...down the line -- as long as he guards against eroding the discipline necessary to cut the debt as special pleaders seek increased funding for their pet projects. Every step that seriously swipes at the deficit will require a time-consuming dance of consensus building. Assuming that Clinton's fancy footwork represents the beginning of this exercise, it is wrongheaded to beat on the new Administration for slipping its timetable. Speed would be nice, but it is better by far to take the time to get it right at first, rather than do it fast and have to repair mistakes later...
...debates with Douglas did mark the beginning of Lincoln's great period for defining the issue of slavery in politically manageable terms. But that involved a good deal of fancy footwork and casuistry. When he did not want to discuss uncomfortable matters brought up by Douglas, he loaded his sentences with what the political analyst Willmoore Kendall called "verbal parachutes," phrases he could use for bailing out of anything he said. Here, for instance, he answers a question about abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, the government's own area of direct rule: "I believe that Congress possesses...