Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adjoining Burr Hall, a library for the African-American Studies Department conveniently opens onto a balcony overlooking the entrance of the Barker Center, with its new handicap-access ramp...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "As an incumbent, you become the symbol of government. If you look at Washington and want someone to blame, the only one you know is your local Congressman. And that's a handicap...
...democracy is (or at least should be) based on the principle that a free exchange of ideas will ultimately assure that the people make informed and wise decisions. But that free exchange is only possible in a political system that doesn't handicap challengers excessively. What is becoming clearer with each election (as Ross Perot has pointed out) is that the current election system allows money to dominate democracy...
Even fewer people can spell it. So, like any unusual, foreign-sounding name, mine is somewhat of a handicap when leaving phone messages. When reporting, I spend at least half of my time on the phone spelling my name to secretaries...
...moments, to transcend the terms of the conventional politics. Dukakis learned what happens to a Democratic nominee who runs with a Liberal label. When he told the 1988 convention that the election would be about "competence," not "ideology," Republicans pounced. Clearly, Clinton, too, thought that his liberalism was a handicap and hence he tried to change the outcome by changing his approach. He talked about the breakdown of family and urged people to begin by changing "from inside out," changes that reach "the values, the spirit, the soul." In reality, however, Mr. Clinton was a charter New Democrat...