Word: launching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national television to prove his fitness: perhaps a dancing competition to Lawrence Welk. And President Clinton should stick to sweatpants. Once these men cover themselves with clothes and not just rhetoric, then we can judge their more intellectual attributes. Until then, we're waiting for them to truly launch their campaigns within the covers of Runner's World or GQ. Arsenio Hall and Larry King, you haven't seen anything...
Theresa Randle, who also starred in "Bad Boys," flexes her acting prowess as she imperonates Dorothy Dandridge, Foxy Brown and Lovely. "Girl 6" will probably launch her career as a serious actress. Her range will amaze audiences. Randle can also be praised for her endurance. Her character changes her outfits and her wigs so often, it's a wonder that Randle didn't collapse from exhaustion...
...right tried, with only limited success, to make gambling a moral issue in the presidential race. On the stump, Pat Buchanan routinely declares that "gambling should return to the swamp whence it came." Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, showed up at a recent press conference to launch Tom Grey's Washington office. "Gambling is a cancer on the body politic, destroying families, stealing food from the mouths of children, turning wives into widows," he said, noting that in 1994 the Republican Party accepted more than $1 million in gaming-industry funds. Without specifically mentioning Senator Bob Dole...
...IFOR mission will certainly applaud whatever role U.S. troops undertake in guarding the war crime tribunal investigators." While this may be a first step in U.S. involvement in arresting indicted war criminals, Calabresi says any arrests are still a long way off. "It is significantly more complicated to launch an arrest operation than to provide security," Calabresi says. "In the past, IFOR has said it is unwilling to engage in those types of operations. That is the type of operation that caused trouble in Somalia, so people are nervous about undertaking them here...
...said he has not seriously thought about choosing a running mate. He expects to wait until the GOP convention in August to make his choice. Dole is under pressure from Pat Buchanan to pick a pro-life candidate. Both Whitman and Powell are pro-choice. Buchanan has threatened to launch an independent run for the White House if the Republican ticket and platform are not anti-abortion. Whitman's announcement leaves a quartet of Midwest governors as the leading vice- presidential contenders. Illinois' Jim Edgar, Michigan's John Engler, Ohio's George Voinovich and Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson all played...