Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to understand how this family works, Michael explains. Everyone who knows Alma says that if her husband had chosen to run, she would have supported him, however opposed she was to the whole idea. And that's why he never came out and asked her, but tried to read the signals instead. "My mother would look at him and say, 'If you want to do it, I'm in,'" Michael says. "The kids would say the same thing: 'We're in.' Because we've done this before. We're always in. That's a cardinal rule in this house...
...breath before people started asking about the vice presidency. In his remarks, he seemed to rule it out, though that is almost a requirement for getting the job. And Dole's team was practically printing up bumper stickers before the day was over. Campaign manager Scott Reed called the idea of a Dole-Powell ticket "orgasmic...
...what will probably be a series of presidential vetoes. Emboldened by polls showing public opinion running nearly 2 to 1 against the G.O.P. budget, Clinton aides believe, as senior adviser George Stephanopoulos says, that "the bottom is falling out for the Republicans." That may be wishful thinking, but the idea of a prolonged showdown no longer worries the White House, where officials now speculate that the debate over budget priorities might not be resolved until after next year's election...
...exist? Do other Earth-like planets orbit other sunlike stars? "We made Congress a lot of bold promises about how much we'd learn from the Hubble," says John Bahcall, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and an early champion of the idea of a space telescope. "I'm quite relieved to be able to say we were right...
...universe. Their illogical preliminary answer: the cosmos is between 8 billion and 12 billion years old--or about 2 billion years younger than the oldest known stars. While Freedman and others refine their measurements, cosmologists are scrambling to patch up their theories. To save the idea of the Big Bang, the postulated explosive event that created the universe, they are even talking of reviving the idea of the cosmological constant--a sort of universal antigravity force that Einstein proposed and then discarded as inelegant...