Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whether the Democrats will be so open to compromise if they are again given a chance to write legislation that actually has a chance of becoming law. When a similar bill came before the House this summer, liberals bolted. But the early exercise on welfare became the model Gephardt used to produce a plan for a new Democratic majority. As Gingrich and the Republicans began to stumble on issues like school lunches and Medicare, Gephardt and his increasingly optimistic troops began hammering out Families First in endless meetings. "Everyone brought their ideas," he says. Most of them were thrown...
...Democrats seek to recapture the Senate, they might want to look to Cleland as the candidate with the model playbook. This year's Republican version calls for tagging Democratic congressional candidates as hopelessly liberal, but Guy Millner, the millionaire businessman who is challenging Cleland for the seat of retiring Georgia legend Sam Nunn, is having a hard time making it stick. Millner notes darkly that "the Jane Fondas, the Ted Kennedys, all these kinds of people would love to see Max Cleland get elected." But so far, Georgia's increasingly conservative electorate seems to be resisting Millner's ideological barrage...
...sign of alcohol or drugs. Then, alerted by Houston police of the dangers of a new club drug called gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, investigators decided to take a second look. Sure enough, Farias' tissues showed that she had died of a GHB overdose. "This kid was a role-model type," says La Porte Lieut. Carl Crisp. "There's nothing to indicate that she willingly took this drug...
...other accessories unmatched in the Boston area, and their prices tend to be as low as mail-order outlets. You can often drive a better bargain by haggling with the sales clerks, and you can save 10 or 20 percent off retail prices by purchasing a returned or demo model...
...when Ozzie and Harriet were the model of how American lives were organized, the folks on the beach weren't much interested in family values. They were sometimes called beach bums. In fact, I just realized what the inventors of beach volleyball would not have been: Republicans...