Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these stops are accessible by Metro for the cost of a pack of chewing gum. There are of course diversions closer to home. And you're undoubtedly being inundated with information about how to spend your free time (did I mention The Crimson's open house?). But be brave; strike out on your own. Some Saturday afternoon when you're tired of Ultimate Frisbee, think about exploring the city you'll spend the next four years pretending you live in. If nothing else, it'll make it easier to fake it. And you, yes you a Harvard student, might even...
...calls to Morris. But for now the President had other things on his mind. He inked in a few revisions to the statement and returned to work on his speech. Says McCurry: "He just kept going." And going. In his acceptance speech Clinton passed over the whole episode without mention. But every time he talked about families and children, it hung over his head like the balloons caged up in the ceiling of the convention center. The week that should have been all bounce became mostly damage control. The White House rushed to deal with parts of Rowlands' story...
...acting almost as though he had no family, suddenly carted out some of his kids for an appearance on a Larry King show in which he praised the maternal attributes of his usually invisible wife. Gore, in his speech recalling his sister's death from lung cancer, neglected to mention that he continued to raise and sell tobacco on his Tennessee farm for several years after she died...
...rally in Chicago last week for the nation's two teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the scene appeared straight out of one of those old melodramas with vocal audience participation. The guest speaker, Vice President Al Gore, had only to mention the villains--Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich, "the Ginsu gang," who "tried to chop, slice and dice all those things that are important to us"--and hisses filled the air. The heroes, too, were just as easy to identify. "We love all our teachers," Gore told the pumped-up, cheering crowd...
...also started to play up its bipartisan nature, noting, for instance, that 30% of its membership is Republican. Yet this year, of the 255 congressional candidates being supported by the group, only one Republican is receiving any part of the N.E.A.'s $5.5 million in PAC money--not to mention the $20.7 million it will spend on such indirect political activities as lobbying and training members for campaign work. "If they're saying they're bipartisan, but their dollars are saying something else, I'd listen to their dollars," says John Berthoud, an analyst with the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution...