Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broken vets like Dole. He has fought for farmers, for veterans, now for victims of prostate cancer. There were few Republicans in 1974 who would have teamed up with George McGovern on anything, much less a reinvention of the food-stamp program. But Dole knew a bit more about hunger than the average Senator...
...debate, declined to participate. The Atlanta event marked the second time in a week that candidates Keyes, Bob Dornan and Richard Lugar were not asked to participate in a presidential debate. After being barred from a debate last week in South Carolina, Keyes said he was going on a hunger strike. WSB-TV released a statement maintaining that it invited what it saw as the four leading candidates to give voters "the most substantive debate." TIME's Jack White says the station's decision sets a dangerous precedent. "Where does the press get off deciding who is a minor candidate...
...resume in Northern Ireland--it will be very difficult to see the way forward to a permanent settlement. Yet the mood in Northern Ireland has clearly shifted toward peace. "There has been a sea change here," insists Denis Faul, a Catholic priest who was involved in ending the I.R.A. hunger strikes in 1981. "Three years ago we would have been slagging each other off over a bombing like the one in London. But now everyone is talking about maintaining the peace. The days of the paramilitaries are numbered. No one wants to go back...
...This hunger is quite evident in a personality whose idea of recreation is getting behind the wheel of his BMW and outmaneuvering New York City taxi drivers. "Driving here is wonderful," he avers, "especially if you want to go fast. There's nothing greater than starting at 125th and Second Avenue and going down to 30th. You can hit the lights, and you have six lanes to maneuver in. I can't figure out why anyone would want to sit in the back...
What this bill cannot do is bring us socialism's benefits without socialism's cost. So it is yet another example of America's hunger for the free lunch. And it is a free lunch of a particularly modish sort--the free lunch of moderation. Kassebaum-Kennedy is everything people claim to hunger for in public policy: bipartisan, high-minded, incremental, nonideological. Kennedy has said, "There will be those who say [this bill] goes too far in some areas--and there will be those who say it does not go far enough." This might be called the Baby Bear approach...