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Word: peskier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Little Communicator is at it again. As Republican spin doctors and political handlers scurry about the landscape trying to use "family values" to shore up President Bush's eroding base among conservatives and divert attention from peskier concerns such as the deficit, the Vice President must beat the populist drum on cultural and moral matters. To a standing ovation from the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis last week, Quayle declared that the hoots of nationwide amusement at his Murphy Brown efforts were a "badge of honor." A "cultural elite," cynical and relativistic, the same folk Spiro Agnew used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NEA: Trampled Again | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

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