Word: guards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the spending bills heading for Clinton's desk, the quiet is ending. After months of searching for issues that will cut their way, battered Democrats have awakened to the political advantage of forming a Praetorian Guard around Mother Earth. Though Clinton has been accused of being just pale green, especially after he retreated in 1993 from imposing new grazing fees on federal lands, the White House has got the message. Al Gore, a best-selling conservationist, two weeks ago denounced Republicans on the Hill for a "jihad against the environment'' that had allowed lobbyists from "the biggest polluters...
...selling wolf tickets--archaic black slang for making loud but empty threats. For all his cries about the need for blacks to develop economic independence, for instance, the Nation of Islam's enterprises are less than impressive: small businesses such as restaurants, the Final Call newspaper and security-guard companies that contract with public housing projects and similar institutions in many cities around the country. In all, the Muslims probably employ fewer blacks--perhaps a few thousand--than a couple of good-size auto plants. Much is made, and rightly so, of the thousands of black ex-criminals and drug...
...stocks listed in the Standard & Poor's 500. Richard Cooper, an investor who entrusted $500,000 to Steinhardt 28 years ago, has seen his investment bloom to $100 million. Says Cooper: "Thanks to him, I never had a sleepless night. I knew Steinhardt was always there, standing guard. Every investor loves...
Collins has always excelled at sports. In addition to her field hockey prowess, she was also a track star in the mile and a point guard for a two-time state champion team for her high school in Walpole, Massachusetts...
Also, Sunday the Harvard men's sailing team led by skipper Dan Parks placed a modest third in the New England Sloop Championship at the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut. A first or second place finish would have qualified the team for the nationals...