Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have many multinationals that want to do business with China, and inasmuch as I hate to quote Pat Buchanan, I think he was right when he said 'When it comes to MFN, Republicans love money more than they hate tyranny.' They'd do business with everyone, but at some point you've got to say no," Woodhead says...
...yell, and I saw he had the 16-gauge in his hand. I knew I had to get that gun away from him. There was a struggle, and the gun went off." Why did he lie throughout the past two decades? "Because of the pain...The pain Pat and the children would have had because of what happened." He testified that the porcupine story was concocted because, as a newcomer and the only Jew in town, he did not feel he would be believed. Last Wednesday the defense presented the Dillons' former baby sitter, Cindy Klein, who testified that Dillon...
Jiang is taking a considerable risk to speak at Harvard--an invitation he could quite easily have ducked. The mere fact that he is coming at all suggests that he is listening to the more enlightened among his retinue of advisers. That deserves a pat on the back, not a rap across the knuckles.--Stephen Hutcheon, fellow, Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government
...Panthers made it to the Stanley Cup Finals two years ago before the Colorado Avalanche made quick work of them in a sweep (ironically, ending Denver's drought of pro sports titles which had been the nation's longest). Last season, the Heat emerged from virtual anonymity under Pat Riley and made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals where it ran into a juggernaut known as the Chicago Bulls...
Indeed, there was little Republican left in me by 1992. Exposure to history in high school, to political philosophy through Lincoln-Douglas debate, to current events from the newspapers had all convinced me that I was a Democrat at heart. Pat Bacchanal's xenophobic and bitterly homophobic rhetoric at the 1992. Republican convention make me not just a Democrat, but a Democrat infuriated at and disgusted by much of the Republican party...