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That's not red meat for the right, and it might cause Dole some trouble on the road to the nomination. But it reflects the majority view and improves his ultimate prospects. "Look," says Dole, "first, it's what I believe. And second, getting the party nod is nice, but it doesn't mean much if in the end you don't get to live in the big house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY DOLE HASN'T LOST IT | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...THIS. THIS IS THE GREATEST INVENTION," Mariann Raftery says loudly, waving a plastic bag of prepared salad greens in the middle of the local A&P in Scarsdale, an affluent suburb just 15 miles north of New York City. Seven well-dressed Japanese women, pens poised over notebooks, nod politely, not entirely sure what to make of this latest piece of American ingenuity. "It's so convenient," Raftery explains. "And now they have cole slaw too." But there are so many more mysteries to ponder at the A&P. Michiko Takai wants to know: "Which are most popular for children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISPATCHES: THE TRUTH ABOUT CHEEZ-WHIZ | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...televised indictment of Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs, might have caused my venom to rise to near-O.J. levels. But a printed account allows me to nod in agreement, concur that these men should have been captured earlier and that they are wrong. If I saw it on TV, though, I might yell at these slimebags and call for our government to crush them. Thank god for my health that the cable broke...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Reading Between Bosnian Lines | 8/8/1995 | See Source »

...promised to used the fund to avert worldwide financial instability. "We cannot walk away from our global leadership responsibilities," Clinton told reprters at the G-7 summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the same time, he said the bailout fund will "help us prevent future Mexicos." In a nod to U.S. critics of the president's hastily-assembled peso plan, Clinton aides stressed that the International Monetary Fund would try to tap the resources of newly wealthy Asian countries to keep the U.S. contribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: G-7 SUMMIT . . . NO MORE MEXICOS | 6/16/1995 | See Source »

...wide vibrato. The music couldn't help but acquire a very private quality, hardly the kind that reaches out to an audience; the listeners could not readily participate in the experience, except by observing. Many became restless during and especially after the movement, but Buswell quieted them with a nod to Levinson, whose crashing entrance gave an almost attacca start to the last movement...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Gardner Grows Fresh Beethoven And Bartok | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

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