Word: hards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that a consequence of placing high is a trip to the NCAAs in Indiana. The kids who line up at Regionals and worry about making it to the Big Show are the ones who are going to choke. The kids who focus on putting themselves in good position, racing hard, and finishing strong are the ones getting on a plane the next week. The other kids get a one-way ticket to the Smack Down Hotel...
...most prestigious colleges, even if they aren't the best fit. Diagnosing the problem as laziness, he believes that parents and students are abdicating responsibility in a process they could navigate at little cost. "You go to the store and buy the guidebook," he snaps. "What's so hard about that...
Which means that Democrats next year will have a real choice. They just have to ask themselves the hard questions: Is fiscal discipline, and the buoyant economy that feeds it, now so much a part of the democratic bloodstream that voters will always watch the bottom line? Or are they more interested in where we go next than in what it took to get here, and are willing to trust that the dreamer will find the money somewhere to pay for all he wants...
Fruit's lobbyists--along with those from competitors like the Sara Lee Corp., which makes Hanes underwear, and retailers like the Limited and the Gap--are pushing hard for passage. Fruit officials claim the measure, which Bill Clinton supports, will create jobs, and deny that the company's donations can buy influence. Says Ron Sorini, a Fruit lobbyist: "There's absolutely no correlation between our soft-money donations and those who decide to vote in favor of this bill...
This is not Nouri's first scuffle with hard-liners: in an impeachment trial last year, parliament ousted him as Minister of the Interior for permitting student demonstrations. Since then, his main vehicle of dissent has been the national daily Khordad. The newspaper has published defiant antiregime opinions by prominent clerics, notably Grand Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who has been under house arrest since 1997 for questioning velayat-e-faqih, the absolute authority of the clergy. In an explosive article, a young cleric, Mohsen Kadivar, even criticized the royalist tendencies of the clerics and their treatment of Supreme Leader Ayatullah...