Word: pick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secretary of State James Baker is said to have expressed concern that American soldiers will be easy targets for terrorists. When aid to Peru came up at a Cabinet meeting, Baker reportedly asked his aides to pick another country, where the U.S. would not have to worry about casualties (they could not find...
...Ford costs about the same as a Chevy," or in the case of Harvard and Yale, a BMW costs about the same as a Jaguar. Cotter admits that the market is not price sensitive. "A family decides on private vs. public," he says. "But then they don't pick the cheapest within the category...
...hour, 30 cents less than Democrats and labor unions wanted. Bush supported a wage increase during the 1988 campaign, but after his Inauguration, White House economic advisers opposed it as inflationary. "He had to deliver on a promise," said a top official. "The easiest thing he could do was pick a number...
...were radically different, and the generation that came of age then has always felt it was something special. More than a demographic phenomenon, it was the generation that was going to pick up a decaying world, invigorate it with a shot of energy and mold it to its liking...
UNFORTUNATELY, it's simply not true. The Baby Boomers put George Bush into office less than a year ago. They continue to spend themselves and the country into oblivion, leaving the next generation to pick up the pieces...