Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boxer who just missed Olympic glory and at 32, has spent his life working for Jack Tierney as a mob enforcer. Billy is the first in the family to have left life as a laborer behind to embrace education, a college degree and a sub-urban, green-lawn dream of prosperity...
...trouble and have Eileen McGann at your side. One of Connecticut's finest trial attorneys, she didn't become famous until she displayed her skills on the lawn of her house protecting her husband, presidential adviser Dick Morris, who had just resigned in disgrace at the Democratic National Convention. McGann has finally agreed to have a drink with me the day Morris is emerging after five months of self-imposed exile writing his much anticipated book, Behind the Oval Office. She begins our conversation while moving furniture 10 times her size back into place in her newly painted apartment overlooking...
...have seen him in action quoting and using Scripture. Let him concentrate on a chapter or two--Isaiah 58 would do--and get "Bible believers" to talk not about trivia such as school-prayer amendments and the creche on the courthouse lawn. The prophets teach us to put our religious energies into the homeless, our relatives in need and the poor in general...
...balloons have all popped, the confetti been swept away. Lawn signs will be pulled down and bumper stickers will erode. High school bands in swing states will go back to playing at football games instead of political rallies. Our airwaves can be reclaimed in the name of products we don't need, after having been temporarily subjugated by candidates we don't want. It is all over. Bob Dole, who first faced the voters at age 27, has waged his last campaign and lost. Bill Clinton, who ran his first race at age 28, has waged his last campaign...
After a brief stint in the state legislature, Newinski is using some innovative methods to run for Congress. His lawn signs, for instance, are decorated with opponent Bruce Vento's name and a red slash, with the caption 20 years is too much. For his part, Newinski says he will fight tax hikes, work to get more prisons built and institute inmate work programs where wages earned go toward restitution for victims...