Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press would like the campaign to be as long as possible, to give it an epic sweep--great armies on the march, great men nobly surveying the terrain, great men brought down by tragic flaws (hubris, a voice that sounds like a peanut grinder, a big fishy loan, a shadowy past at the draft board, a bimbo in the closet). But it is humiliation enough just to run for President. Scandal hardly makes it worse. Scandal, in fact, endears the candidate to us. Senator Gramm, when asked why he had opted against military service in his youth, said, "It didn...
...community with about 14,000 students, says that before her schools applied for the School Breakfast Program, students would start feeling sick in the middle of the morning. Instead of playing during recess, they would lie down. "We would go to our school kitchen and beg for a little peanut-butter sandwich or milk to hold them over,'' says Butcher. "Often the older brother would come in and ask for something and then ask for something for his little brother and then his little sister. They just had nothing in their refrigerator at home." Butcher says that now that these...
After lying low since the GOP midterm election sweep and enduring criticism even from his Democratic allies,President Clinton made a vigorous comeback speechto the Democratic Leadership Council last night -- with a few defensive barbs. "Join me in the arena, not in the peanut gallery," Clinton told the moderate group he once led, referring to current chairman Oklahoma Rep. Dave McCurdy, who just hours before saddled him with the label "transitional figure." The president then issued a battle cry to Democrats that implied he'd work to reclaim the center for the party's -- and his own -- welfare. After praising...
...couldn't stand it anymore," Christine says. "So I made it my New Year's resolution: No more fighting." On Jan. 2 she slipped out the kitchen door at 5 a.m., with $144, two cans of Diet Coke, six cans of Star-Kist tuna fish, a jar of Skippy peanut butter, her diary, some clothes, a pocket knife and a photo of her eight-year-old sister. She paid $68 for a bus ride to Hollywood. "I sort of figured that anybody could get by in Hollywood. Lots of freedom and good weather and stuff...
...have enough trouble on its hands, the Clinton Administration has to decide soon whether to join with Chiquita in opposing the banana quotas in defense of open trade and a Europe free for bananas. But this begs a tough question: If we're for free bananas, what about free peanuts? Currently we've got a quota on those to protect small peanut farmers and ex-Presidents...