Word: grounded
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Moreover, the Dole campaign continues to self-destruct. Even worse than taking a tumble, which resulted in pictures of the candidate helpless on the ground, and referring to the "Brooklyn Dodgers" (who moved to Los Angeles almost 40 years ago), Dole last week let Clinton win the endorsement of the nation's largest police union virtually by default...
Cleland's strong showing is due in part to his aggressive effort to seize the middle ground. He's running on such non-Democratic issues as term limits and a balanced budget, and has come out against gays in the military. Cleland has also distanced himself from President Clinton, who is not particularly popular in the state (polls show Clinton and Dole in a statistical dead heat). At the same time Cleland is reaching out to the Democratic base by supporting abortion rights and tying his opponent to the "extremist" Republican leadership in Congress. Democrats need to "stay...
Despite the nighttime drama at Doha--part of the U.S. force additions that include 4,700 ground troops, eight Stealth bombers, 23 F-16 fighters in Bahrain, a Patriot antimissile battery and 23 combat ships--military tensions seemed to diminish by day. The troops are officially embarked on a training mission dubbed "Intrinsic Action 96-3," hardly the ringing title of a real assault. Saddam stuck to his word, temporarily, by not firing at planes patrolling the no-fly zones. He appeared to be removing his antiaircraft missiles and mobile launchers. The U.S. stepped back from its threat of "disproportionate...
...understand. The cultural gulf threatened to get even wider when a ranking officer in the Russian space program suggested that the space station should be tidier with Lucid aboard because "we know women love to clean." Lucid tried to defuse the incident in a Mir-to-ground press conference. "We all work together to keep the place tidy," she said...
...kids were leaving home, and she was learning what the sun can do to your face and gravity to your thighs. Then, if you decamped with the 20-year-old assistant, the woman left behind got to keep the house, the friends, the country club and the moral high ground. She could also count on the solidarity of first wives--without a club--who would shun the new woman for moving in to skim off the gravy years...