Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that this isn't a perfectly legitimate request to make. But considering the small sum -- $65 million isn't much in his overall budget -- this is just a little election year pork barrel." Even if Clinton's plan is dismissed by majority Republicans, the President has nothing to lose: the budget likely won't be approved until after the November election. -- Jenifer Mattos
Unto this breach rides Dick Lamm, who admits that his is as much a crusade as a campaign. "This is almost like Cinderella," he says. "You wander into the wrong place, and you lose your shoe, and all of a sudden, you're a presidential candidate." He may not be a Powell, but Lamm does have some advantages over Perot, mainly being a fresher face with proven electability and governing experience, more campaign mileage and a subtle sense of humor. "Ross Perot, to his credit, has built a party bigger than himself," Lamm deadpans. "That's what he intended...
...seen Tom Cruise hurled from an exploding helicopter onto a moving train, is it really that thrilling to see a bassist jump from the top of a three-foot amp? If you've just seen a twister tear apart a town, doesn't a mere mosh pit lose some of its anarchic...
...Even though it's over in a heartbeat, the race has three distinct stages: start, acceleration and deceleration. The start itself has two components, the reaction to the gun and the angle of takeoff. Says Brigham Young University track coach Willard Hirschi: "If you come up too quickly, you lose acceleration. If you lean too far, you can stumble. It is like an airplane taking off--there is an ideal angle at which you can generate speed." To get up to speed--about 23 m.p.h. at their fastest--runners have to be careful not to try too hard. As Hirschi...
Clever as they may have been, that and similar tactical strokes were small beer. Yeltsin's problems were too big to be solved simply by delivering what people knew was due them in the first place. Even before their polling confirmed their suspicions, the Americans intuited that Yeltsin would lose and lose badly if the election were a referendum on his stewardship. Most Russians, the polls and focus groups found, perceived Yeltsin as a friend who had betrayed them, a populist who had become imperial. "Stalin had higher positives and lower negatives than Yeltsin," says Dresner. "We actually tested...