Word: hurrah
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Russians have said there are really only two words in their language: ura (hurrah) and uvy (alas). After generations of being forced to cheer, 286 million people now seem to be lamenting in unison. What's more, they are | booing the man who empowered them to do so. Gorbachev may deserve criticism for having not yet abolished the State Planning Commission, and numerous central ministries are still obstructing reform. But he has unquestionably dismantled the Ministry of Fear. For that he gets astonishingly little thanks...
...state income tax increase, and her last-minute "pocketbook" appeal to the party's traditional labor and minority constituencies came too late. While she attracted 58% of the women's vote, she was hurt by low minority turnout. But few believe the Governor's race will be her last hurrah. Democratic Senator Alan Cranston, caught in the tangles of the S&L scandal, announced last week that he is suffering from prostate cancer and will not seek re-election in 1992. A Feinstein-for-Senate campaign is widely expected...
...unlike O'Connor's character, Bulger doesn't seem to think he's ready for his last hurrah...
Bulger has been in office a long time, almost 30 years in the state legislature, and to many observers he bears a more than passing resemblance to the ultra-literate Irish pol Frank Skeffington in Edwin O'Connor's novel The Last Hurrah...
Finally, Allison Greene hit a turnaround jumper with 23 seconds left to put Dartmouth up and set up Fink's last hurrah...