Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guard of the welfare state." The President spoke of the Age of Possibility; Dole of the Era of Darkness. Clinton spoke to 250 million Americans; Dole to 20,000 Christian conservatives in Iowa. Clinton was inclusive and optimistic; Dole was unforgiving and retro. Clinton was the leader above the fray; Dole was the fray. The only good news was that so many viewers turned off their sets before he came on. "It was," said a Dole adviser who watched in pain, "pathetic...
...October 1993, when Yeltsin's opponents challenged his presidency by force, it was an act of principle as well as prudence for the U.S. to stand beside him. In '96, when they are challenging him at the ballot box, it is neither principled nor prudent to enter the fray...
...areas of public service and randomization, he jumped into the fray long before he became dean, with his Report on the Structure of Harvard College released a year and a half...
...have already begun to come together. Students who once considered themselves apolitical have in-volved themselves in the political fray. Several students from the University of Massachusetts organized a student aid rally at Government Center in November, and we College Democrats were there to give our support...
...American people don't think it's the President's business to tell them what ought to happen in the congressional elections." But after Ron Wyden gave Democracts the biggest lift they've had in two years, Clinton's spokesman Mike McCurry put the President back in the fray. "He will campaign early and often with Democratic candidates and he's going to elect a whole bunch of them," said McCurry. "He might even elect a majority in the Congress." Says TIME's James Carney: "Clinton is taking a lot of heat from Congressional Democrats for those Post comments...