Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fighting the amendment, offers a reason to vote against it: "Never before have we amended our constitution here in Hawaii, a land of aloha, to specifically discriminate against one group of people. What if that group were you?" These are people who remember the internment camps, and Young--a former vice speaker of the state house of representatives and longtime activist--expects her argument to resonate. But during Q and A, a man asks her about "all those weirdos from the mainland coming here." Young sighs, objects to his choice of words and pushes on. Later, she laments, "I have...
...done his best to take advantage of his iconoclastic campaign. He calls it "an experiment in American government," and has taken to pronouncing himself "the big underdog," targeted by a money-loving Republican establishment. "They're dying to take the Feingold off McCain-Feingold," he says. Neumann, a former math teacher and homebuilder, argues that Feingold isn't the goody-goody he claims to be: over Feingold's objections, the League of Conservation Voters and the AFL-CIO have run a few advocacy ads criticizing Neumann. "It would be O.K. if he weren't such a hypocrite about it," says...
...recently been down some 20% from its 52-week high.) Schnatter and his wife and three children live in a brick-and-stone mansion set on nearly 16 landscaped acres in suburban Louisville, Ky. One neighbor Schnatter probably doesn't call on: David Novak, the former boss of Pizza Hut and current president and vice chairman of Pizza Hut parent Tricon Global Restaurants, who lives not far away...
...just in case some voters associate such initiatives as prenatal nutrition, day care, parental education and domestic-violence prevention with big-spending liberalism, Reiner and his highly paid political consultants have cleverly lined up a cast of conservative backers. Former Senate candidate Michael Huffington and Los Angeles Republican mayor Richard Riordan are co-chairmen, and Pat Boone has posed for a G.O.P.-directed mailer. Indeed, the measure was crafted to avoid a "Big Government" label: it would apportion most of the tax revenue according to the number of births in each county and distribute it to commissions of unsalaried appointees...
...confides his life story. "Twenty years ago," he says, "I had a tough time in my life. I got divorced. I went into therapy. Now I'm doing O.K. I have three kids, a good job." Pause. "A nice suit." The audience laughs on cue, and the former Meathead plunges on. "But the early experiences I had as a child directly affected how I functioned in life--in the workplace, with friends, with the opposite...