Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heaney, who says he has never worn a Halloween costume, recalls many of Halloween's customs which originated in his native land...
...noncompetitive prices. The Coop has--believe it or not--discovered that students aren't buying its tailored clothing, shoes, "fashionable" items, computer hardware, televisions, stereos or cameras. It promises to take them off the floor this year. Regarding its other items, however, the Coop still lives in retail fantasy land. Delusions of un-coerced sales are the only thing keeping it from shutting down...
...believe Bob Dole, President Clinton has singlehandedly besmirched the highest office in the land and is the primary cause of the public's distrust of government. Last week, in the wake of Dole's final debate with Clinton and with less than three weeks to go until Election Day, Dole made the centerpiece of his campaign not his 15% tax cut but Clinton's moral fitness. "We're just starting to get tough," he told an audience in Riverside, California, noting that for the next 19 days he would highlight what he called "the sleaze factor" in the White House...
Several years ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan suggested that Americans were "defining deviancy down," arguing that out-of-wedlock births, for example, had reached such epidemic proportions that Americans had lowered the threshold of acceptable moral behavior. When it comes to the highest office in the land, voters have defined the presidency down. Richard Nixon's crimes, John Kennedy's infidelities, Lyndon Johnson's ballot rigging, Ronald Reagan's and George Bush's involvement in Iran-contra--these disclosures have so eroded the moral capital of the highest job in the land that Americans expect less from the man who holds...
...apparently don't take their lead from the media. They were still looking for the beef, and didn't know the new spin was, "Where's the mud?" Like jurors who take their responsibility seriously, they were unwilling to pick up on Dole's three early forays into scandal land, even at the cost of forgoing 30 seconds of sound-bite fame...