Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vote" was no less than political suicide in a district where the very mention of a tax increase amounts to political suicide. As the first Democrat to serve since World War I, Margolies-Mezvinsky would have had no prayer of being elected in 1992 without a promise to vote against any tax hike. Keeping that promise was her only hope of winning re-election...
...spokesman for the "Party of Family Values," meanwhile, happened to mention the disastrous condition of school systems in states across the country or the poverty that plagues our urban neighborhoods and has created lost generations more familiar with the Craps than with college...
Newt Gingrich, for all his talk of a Creator, refused to demonstrate the basic human compassion that a belief in any Creator demands. He talked of prayer in schools, but did not mention the homeless people who we see every day walking the streets of Boston and New York. He could not address the xenophobia and racism that spawned Proposition 187 in California, or the proliferation of guns on our streets that even a few weeks ago allowed a deranged man to fire 15 shots from an automatic weapon into the White House...
...When I mention Buffalo, people think of snow, football, buffalo wings--none of which reflect on me," says Charles A. Goodman '97, who is from New York. "Buffalo isn't a very distinct place...
...from the South, someone's bound to mention football," says Alex T. Liesegang '98, who is from Florida. "It's so big there. It's like life or death...