Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even the late-breaking run at Clinton's character was wrong from the start, not because it was unfair but because Dole never quite believed in doing it. Clinton aides, trying to anticipate where the President was most vulnerable, had shown footage to focus groups of him shifting ground on health-care reform and tax cuts and whether he had inhaled. The reaction was so devastating, the consultants burned the videocassettes. But the man who said his word is his bond could never find the right words to attack Clinton's character...
...true Dole fashion, though, the candidate did not communicate any explicit decision, and so meetings, memos and all kinds of frenzied activity continued. As late as August 1, Dole asked aides to rerun the numbers on no fewer than eight different proposals. "We went over this ground months ago," complained a staff member. The final, official, out-loud decision was apparently communicated to Taylor, but he does not remember exactly when it came or what words Dole used. Aides were still working through the morning of Aug. 5 preparing press-briefing books for the public announcement that afternoon...
...make a test run next year on a modified stretch of I-15 outside San Diego. Five leading Japanese automakers, meanwhile, are members of a government-led consortium that turned a four-mile stretch of new expressway near the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics into a smartway proving ground...
...stand in his own defense, which he has not yet decided to do, the jury may never learn that a second girl, this one 17 at the time, claims that Kelly raped her four days later, under almost identical circumstances. (In a bid for change of venue, on the ground that the local jury pool was prejudiced by publicity, the Kellys paid later-to-be-disgraced White House adviser Dick Morris $25,000 for polling...
...breakfast cereals that promise to "bring out the kid in you" and the movie genre about 40-year-old bodies inhabited by fun-loving 10-year-old minds. But at the very same time, childhood is being redefined in the news media as a public safety hazard and breeding ground for pint-size "predators" who would just as soon slit your throat as click on for another round of Nintendo...