Word: goner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just two years ago, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano was considered a political goner. After he nearly unseated the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) in 1988's apparently fraud-smeared presidential election, his star fell so fast that he finished a distant third in the 1994 contest for Los Pinos palace. Despite his illustrious pedigree--he lived at the palace in the 1930s, when his father Lazaro was one of Mexico's most popular Presidents--the more people saw of Cardenas the less they liked him. His ultraleft ideology was a turnoff, and his plodding campaign style made voters ready...
...ambrosia was to the Roman deities. Had I been Eve, man would never have been evicted from the Garden of Eden. Fruit doesn't do anything for me. However, had the snake tempted me with an ice cream sundae, I would have been a goner--even if the Garden had had a polar address...
...about these and other e-mail viruses claim that they will "rewrite your hard drive" and "search on your computer, looking for valuable information, such as e-mail and login passwords." According to these warning messages, all you need to do is read the message and you're a goner. Well, this simply is not true...
Four years ago, Bill Clinton got a big boost when a group of Silicon Valley's captains announced their support for him over George Bush. Now, however, cyberexecutives are considering any campaign drive for Clinton to be, well, a virtual goner. Dismissing Clinton's info-superhighway pep talks as showboating, the industry is focusing on a menu of grievances, including increased corporate taxes, burdensome accounting-reform proposals and, most of all, Clinton's failed veto of a law making it easier for companies to prevail in securities-fraud lawsuits. Silicon Valley successfully pressed for a congressional override, maintaining that...
...inner circle. Rumors are everywhere in Washington that the Election Day debacle will give chief of staff Panetta the ammunition to complete his overhaul of the White House, something that Clinton has resisted. "If the same cast of characters is in place three months from now, ((Clinton's)) a goner," says one Administration official...