Word: pastness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heels of his Iowa victory, something suddenly snapped. At each press conference, Bush dropped another veil. First he said he could pass the White House background check that asks appointees whether they have used drugs in the past seven years. The next day it was up to 25 years. Even people who thought reporters had no business asking the questions were surprised by how Bush was answering them. By the end of the week, Bush allies wondered why he was giving so much oxygen to a story he needs to smother. It's not that they're suddenly worried...
...drug question, this time about whether, as President, he could meet the same qualifications as the people he hired when it came to FBI background checks concerning illegal drug use. Bush was at first confused, and he gave his stock answer about not cataloging the sins of his distant past. Then he and his team piled into the motorcade to head for a fund raiser at the Fairmont Hotel...
...that in Utah, joining a social order devoted to clean living doesn't exactly distinguish you. Firebombing meat and leather outlets, using pipe bombs on a fur-trading office and setting minks free, however--as Straight Edgers and closely linked animal liberationists have been accused of doing over the past several years--tend to drop you from consideration for membership in the church choir...
...automobile companies to make design a strategic weapon. "I gained an appreciation for just how complicated it is to come up with any product that is both artful and appealing to consumers," Gibney says. "Designers are discovering with cars that if you look back at great models of the past, you'll find some inspiration for what will work in the future, and technological advances have made it possible to stretch the metal, glass and four-wheels idea beyond what anybody thought possible...
...past four years, TIME, in collaboration with the Princeton Review, has produced a college guidebook titled THE BEST COLLEGE FOR YOU. The 2000 edition of the guide is now available on newsstands and in bookstores. Chock-full of information on what college is like and how to go about finding, applying to, getting into--and paying for--the best college for you, the guide also features the editors' choice for College of the Year...