Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shoddy and unsafe condition of some of its branches, and the other is the standardization of the product. "Managed competition" may solve the former problem, but the latter is more of a long-term threat and results from the fact that the system is run by, and primarily responsible to, centralized government bureaucracies rather than communities of consumers...
ULTIMATELY, IT MAY COME DOWN TO A MATTER OF passion vs. Passion. Twenty Republican centrist leaders who think they can muster enough of the former to check the growing power of the latter have announced the creation of the Republican Majority Coalition. The group's main goal is to excise controversial moral questions, like abortion, gay rights and school prayer from politics generally and from the next G.O.P. platform in particular...
...power struggle. This combination justified a procession of interventions, from Korea to Vietnam to Grenada. Having triumphed in its global struggle with the Soviets, the U.S. gained the opportunity to put more emphasis on its ideals than on its interests. But so far, it has mainly focused on the latter. American troops went into Panama to stem the flow of drugs and into Kuwait to protect the flow of oil -- vital national interests indeed. In both cases, President Bush stressed America's moral motivations. But James Baker made the gaffe (defined as a politician's accidentally telling the truth...
...Governor's heart and mind. Clinton has shrewdly recruited officials from both wings, creating an internal tension that will probably force him to slalom back and forth in the White House to keep everyone happy. "Clinton has rewarded the moderates and rewarded the liberals," said a member of the latter camp. "He isn't tipping his hand as yet." The prominence of From and his minions in Clinton's operation, however, suggests that one side in the tug-of-war is already winning some rope...
...hear the prairie spaces and the melancholy of divided lives that were Cather's true territory in Maniacs songs like Stockton Gala Days and Gold Rush Brides. "Who were the homestead wives?" the latter asks. "The land was free, yet it cost their lives . . . In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moan as they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief." The words are printed like this in the album notes, as if they were bits of homespun prose from some cosmic farmer's almanac; but Merchant sings them with dreamy, insistent fervor, like...