Word: grinded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have an axe to grind with anybody," the six-year tenant said, adding that he appreciates the help he has received from HSA manager Richard Olken in searching for a new site for his business...
...White House, political aides to the President are not sweating about who will win the compassion competition. ("Compassion is us," could be the White House's slogan.) They and other Democrats see conservative compassion as a kind of Republican confidence trick, allowing them to grind the faces of the poor while wearing a self-righteous smile. But the idea of compassion is genuine and will not melt away. Luntz avows that voters "want you to feel for them." So, advice to all Republican candidates from a consultant in compassion: "Think needy, not greedy...
...Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "It looks like they are now content to just continue to make temporary funding deals and put off the big, fundamental questions about restructuring government until after the November elections. As Sam Brownback told me today, 'Instead of going for the long bomb, let's grind it out on the ground.'" The next big hurdle for negotiators: reaching an agreement on extending federal borrowing authority past the March 1 deadline set by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Markets and Congressional negotiators trembled Wednesday when Moody's threatened to downgrade its rating of $387 billion in U.S. bonds...
...SATURDAYS AGO IN CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, but it could be anywhere, any day on the campaign trail. Freed from the weekly Senate grind, Dole is suffering another punishing round of stump appearances. He is serving up the red-meat, conservative lines the campaign insists will win the nomination. The audience has already been shown a 13-minute video titled Bob Dole: An American Hero. The film cost $167,000 to produce and distribute and has the feel of Morning in America, the famous, upbeat Ronald Reagan video. Dole's film is heavy on the story of his road back from...
...Washington soup kitchen, and finds time for the Red Cross, CARE and Best Friends, Elayne Bennett's program for inner-city girls.) As her husband's career advanced, Alma had to perform a series of increasingly public roles. She excelled, but didn't always enjoy the social grind that might take her from the coffee held in honor of the fashion show held by the officers' wives, to the Red Cross lunch meeting, to the reception for the wife of the Trinidadian Security Minister. Alma leaves friends in stitches by describing hellish dinner parties at which Colin always seems...