Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perot petition coalition fuses spare-no-expense business sophistication with a giddy volunteer enthusiasm. Despite Perot's pretense of an above-the- fray aloofness from the campaign, the nerve center is on the 11th floor of the same posh north Dallas office tower where his business headquarters is located. Here half a dozen Perot Group employees huddle behind the closed brown door of a war room. A wall map of Texas symbolizes the state's role as the first major petition hurdle; by May 11, Perot needs the signatures of 54,000 voters who did not participate in this year...
John M. Newman, a former U.S. Army major who teaches history at the University of Maryland, has entered this fray with a meticulously documented argument that Kennedy planned to withdraw from Vietnam had he been re-elected in 1964. Earnest yet overheated, grounded in footnotes yet prone to flights of conspiratorial conjecture, JFK and Vietnam (Warner Books; 506 pages; $22.95) reads like a strange hybrid between a doctoral dissertation and the rough draft of an Oliver Stone screenplay, and with reason: it was, indeed, Newman's dissertation, and Stone did use it as a basis for his movie...
This week, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson joined the fray, speaking in support of minority hiring activists in an appearance at the school...
...potency of self-esteem that is rooted in nearly three decades of social activism, embraces men and women with equal fervor, and neatly hooks into the national quest for the self. With her No. 1 best seller, Revolution from Within, she has vaulted back into the public fray. "Maybe I should have done this earlier in my life," she says candidly, "but I was so tired, burned out and distant from myself that I couldn...
...competing in the Olympics, for Teruel, is a chance to combat the apathy he sees all around him and to make his small voice heard above the fray. "You can't have a fair society," he says, "but what else have you got to go for? The people who really could do something don't feel like they can. And the people who are really dangerous do everything...