Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colleagues found him personally aloof, they also knew no one worked harder to ease their lives, rescheduling votes around fund raisers, personal trips, the school play. Dole liked to hold court in the cloakroom, ear to the ground, counting votes, making wisecracks. Larry Pressler, an occasionally clueless South Dakotan, was a favorite target. Dole once came down to the Senate well during a vote and said out loud, so everyone could hear, "Don't know which way to go on this one. How did Pressler vote?" Even the clerks would start to laugh. But then it would be Dole...
...every day while politicians pretend everything is moving along smoothly. "This is just another example of the Dayton Treaty's two levels," says TIME's Marguerite Michaels. "The first is the diplomatic "good news" level and the second is the disastrous level of what is actually happening on the ground." Diplomats can paper over the widening cracks in the accords with glowing press releases for only so long. The September 14th elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina - a major test of the peace treaty - are approaching and with them the danger that the shaky agreement may crumble into a renewed Bosnian...
...smaller, flexible ones that "fit our life-style." This sounds more like convenience-store values for those who can't be bothered with deep commitment. Stengel's apologist thinking is especially disturbing in the context of a society in which the middle and lower classes are rapidly losing ground while a small group of the economically elite amasses more and more of the nation's wealth with little sense of noblesse oblige. Boutique values and transient commitments are just perfect for the residents of gated communities who have little time to spare in their rush for profit. DAVID S. LITTON...
...AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 191. Crashed when one of its three engines fell to the ground just after takeoff from Chicago on May 25, 1979; 275 people killed...
...meet the press in Russell, Kansas. Could Kemp put Dole over the top? The perky former quarterback may be just what the gloomy Dole needs. Five national polls this week showed Dole trailing Bill Clinton by anywhere from16 to 23 points. A CNN poll found that Dole actually lost ground after promising what should have been a campaigner's sure thing, the big tax cut that one top Clinton aide sarcastically described as "a Hail Mary pass." In Kemp, Dole seems to think he's found his quarterback, an energetic, opinionated politician who gets along with voters better than with...