Word: guv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Ventura is taking a time-out, and it's also a '90s irony: today's political culture craves authenticity but bristles when it actually gets some. But ride with the Guv in his Lincoln Navigator, and you find that even the chastened Ventura is more candid than 99% of pols. On the Cuban trade embargo he says what self-styled truth tellers like Bill Bradley don't: "It's stupid. Fidel's outlasted eight Presidents. Is it an ego thing? Do we have to wait for him to die?" He's the rare non-Democratic Governor who gives Clinton...
GEORGE W. BUSH Texas massacre spotlights Guv's slavish devotion to N.R.A. Where's the "compassion...
...government spending, contrary to the doomsday scenarios that haunted us following the budget deficits of the Reagan and Bush years, as of last week, for the first time since 1969, the government will take in more money than it spends. Ross Perot's sky-is-falling rants about guv'ment irresponsibility of six years ago now seem almost cute--like a real-life Chicken Little...
...Guv-nuh" (a moniker Weld developed during his Beacon Hill days) is known for his mercurial style and wry sense humor. After signing legislation for cleaner rivers one summer he dove into the Charles River fully clothed...
...sure, William "Fly Club" Weld is not beyond Byzantine political maneuvering. In this financially challenged part of the state, the Guv is only sighted during campaign season. He rolls into town doling out pithy comments and paltry checks. The people of New Bedford and Fall River would gladly trade what he actually gives in state funds for even half of what he promises...