Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they have also been hearing a lot from Republican challenger Pat Buchanan, who has made five trips to the state since announcing his candidacy last month. Taunting Bush for breaking his famous no-new-taxes promise of 1988, Buchanan signed a written pledge to that effect and challenged the President to do the same. Asked about the dare, Bush brushed it aside with a facetious two-word dismissal: "What pledge...
...still had fantasies of being raped. Yet everything valid in The Beauty Myth was said in Ephron's famous essays on breast size and vaginal perfumes, and male oppression is nowhere better described than in her article on women in the magazine world. She was portraying betrayed women -- Pat Loud on TV, Barbara ("Bootsie") Mandel in the Maryland Governor's mansion -- long before she became...
Most of Bush's rivals for the White House are staking out nuanced positions on trade. While populist Democrat Tom Harkin and conservative Republican Pat Buchanan both talk tough about forcing the Japanese to open their markets, Democrats Bill Clinton, Bob Kerrey and Paul Tsongas have argued that successful competitiveness begins at home. Clinton recently told a working- class audience in Manchester, N.H., that Bush cannot solve the nation's economic problems by seeking concessions from Tokyo. The Japanese, Clinton said, will help get Bush "past the election, but over the long run, we're going to have to compete...
...Pat Paulsen. The television comedian, a veteran of several lighthearted campaigns, will run again in '92, despite having filed for personal bankruptcy...
...would a sitting President, assured of the Republican nomination, add such a personal touch to this formality? Ask Pat Buchanan, the polemicist turned candidate, whose aggressive effort to shift the G.O.P. rightward threatens to siphon off enough conservative votes to embarrass Bush at the outset of what could be a tough re-election bid. Buchanan "deserves the Christopher Columbus award," quips Democratic state chairman Chris Spirou, "because he forced Bush to discover New Hampshire...