Word: mills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focus on such popular resentment while campaigning in the Pacific Northwest, has found it easy to scapegoat the owl for the region's economic woes. Speaking in Colville, Washington on Monday, Bush said "Not far from here is a timber town called Forks. Like Colville, Forks supported a mill, and the mill supported a community. Because of a lack of timber, the mill had to close. Today unemployment at Forks is at 20 percent," Bush said. "It's time to put people ahead of owls," he concluded...
...difference is, Gore asked to be subject to the image mill, and so did Quayle. It's politics as usual for them. But Chelsea Clinton never wanted to be a star. It seems an unfortunate fate for a very normal 12-year-old. As if adolescence weren't wretched enough in solitude, hers is now entertainment for 50 million viewers...
Campaign aides and GOP members of Congress have begun to worry about their ticket. And more importantly, reporters want some explanation for Bush's inability to find the path so well- worn by expert Republican campaigners. It is this combination which has slowly cranked up the rumor mill now known as the White House...
...When the mill where his father worked closed, forcing a family move to Oregon, Johnson chose to reinvent himself. He talked his way onto the football team at Crescent Valley High, and when track season rolled around, he tried a few events. Johnson was introduced to Evangelical Christianity by a fellow football player. "Once Dave got involved in athletics," his mother Caroline told a reporter, "I noticed a big change. He became a different person...
...Carter drones on, the delegates mill around on the floor like Boy Scouts at a jamboree or insurance salespeople at an annual get-together in Las Vegas. They trade signs. They trade Walter Mondale stories. ("When my mother was in the hospital, Fritz Mondale sent her the most beautiful letter. That man is a saint...