Word: locks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...residents of Old Quincy traded in their keys this week as locksmiths replaced the cylinders in every lock of the six-entry dormitory...
While Quincy House officials declined to comment on the lock change, the University press office released a statement in response to an inquiry...
Foley's prickly challenge to term limits is precisely why his 30-year lock on a House seat is now in jeopardy. "People are saying that he's become too big for his britches and that he's just out of touch," says Randy Pepple, a Seattle G.O.P. consultant. Flapping hard from the lofty perch of House Speaker, Foley's venerability is his greatest vulnerability. Nethercutt, a youngish Republican lawyer with boundless energy and a ready smile, punches out the message that Foley has succumbed to Beltway-think. "Mr. Foley is a nice man, but he personifies Congress's reputation...
...Massachusetts, the hunger is not fueled by the sweep-the-bum-out mentality that is rattling other incumbents. Rather, it is a vague sense that Kennedy's time is up. Months before Romney gained his lock on the Republican candidacy, veteran G.O.P. pollster Richard Wirthlin came up with some surprising statistics: while 43% of voters favored Kennedy's re-election, 50% did not. "His numbers are perfectly good," says Boston Globe pollster Gerry Chervinsky, "but half the people think it's time for a change." And a poll released last week by the Globe shows that while 52% of voters...
Here was a gaudy show of Clinton's channel-changing skills, his rescindable reality, his now-I-mean-it, now-I-don't. The last, final, no-kidding, planes- in-the-air, lock-and-load, ah'm-gonna-knock-yo'-haid- clean-off dudgeon metamorphosed -- surprise! -- into Jimmy Carter's dropping from the sky into Port-au-Prince. The voodoo of appeasement. Erstwhile murderer-torturer-rapists deserving nothing less than violent eviction (even if the invasion violates U.S. popular and congressional opinion and virtually every lesson learned in Vietnam) became, in the sunshine of Carter's smile and hunger...