Word: peps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appeared to awe-struck House Republicans, who desperately craved Scrooge-makes-good stories as they pushed their budget-balancing legislation last year. Engler began commuting to Washington as a combination welfare guru and motivational speaker. Republican commentator Mary Matalin remembers what the House freshmen took away from one pep talk: "You gotta lead. They're going to demagogue you, your numbers are going to go down, but you have to hang...
...them. But that approach has so alienated members of his party on Capitol Hill that Clinton and his aides have come to realize that without an immediate show of resolve, he may have no allies when it comes time to cut a budget deal with Newt Gingrich. At a pep rally attended by scores of congressional Democrats, Panetta vowed that "for this President, no deal is better than a bad deal." But listeners like Representative Jim McDermott of Washington State were far from persuaded. "There weren't three people in there who believed it," says McDermott...
...council sponsored the event, which cost only 25 dollars, because students want more spirit building activities like pep rallies, according to council member Rudd W. Coffey...
...Mike McNeil told a news conference Wednesday. "The Hooters Girls, with their charm and all-American sex appeal, are what our customers come for." Under an Equal Opportunity Commission order to -- gasp -- hire men to work alongside the Hooters girls, McNeil struck back with a Washington news conference-cum-pep rally designed to protest the decision. Fighting for its corporate life as well as the right to burgers served by waitresses in extremely tight tank tops, the company has taken out full-page ads featuring a swarthy man wearing the distinctive Hooters uniforms in several national newspapers. The 170-restaurant...
...Americans did not hesitate to turn up the temperature in this hothouse environment. On Wednesday morning, even before delivering a pep talk to the three Presidents at the plenary session, Christopher visited the private quarters of each to chide them about actions their countries might take that could derail the talks. He warned Tudjman not to undercut Bosnia's Croat-Muslim federation and told him point-blank to knock off the brinkmanship over eastern Slavonia, the hotly contested sliver of Croatia still controlled by rebel Serbs. The Secretary instructed Izetbegovic to keep his distance from the media and told Milosevic...