Word: pit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bush Administration has assigned DAN QUAYLE the task of leading the counterattack on the pit-bull candidacy of PAT BUCHANAN. The Vice President will visit New Hampshire three times before the Feb. 18 primary in an effort to convince voters that his boss hasn't abandoned the conservative creed. Secret Service agents will scout out bowling alleys and shopping malls where Quayle plans to make "spontaneous" stops to assert that the President understands the fears of middle-class Americans. Besides Buchanan, Quayle faces another nemesis: himself. A new poll indicates that 77% of New Hampshire Republicans would rather vote...
Whether Martinelli, with this ill-advised remark, is practicing pit-bull politics for the Cambridge Civic Association or just for himself, I deplore the comment. There's nothing progressive about it. It turns back the clock to a time when Boston politics was marred by bitter ethnic divisions...
...about every candidate seems eager to harness that anger -- or at least deflect it to the other guy. Besides, TV ads are too expensive to waste on reasoned debate over the economy and the homeless. The bipartisan conclusion: keep it short -- and mean. Dan Quayle has appointed himself the "pit bull" of Bush's campaign. G.O.P. insiders boast that if Mario Cuomo runs, they've already located his Willie Horton: Arthur Shawcross, an upstate New York child killer who went on to murder 10 women after he was paroled...
...good man, generous, hog-on-ice independent, cheerful in a wry sort of way, more than halfway decent. But his life is coming apart. His wife has left him, of course, though his dog, a surly pit-bull cross called "dog," small d, has stayed. He has done some penitentiary time, for cop fighting, and won't be too surprised to find himself jugged again. His pickup truck needs a new transmission. So does...
Besieged by inflation, recession and unemployment as well as his pit-level approval rating (12%), Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is trying to regain ground by attacking "fat cat" government employees. Last week 110,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (who typically earn $450 a week) countered a Mulroney pay freeze, which wiped out their promised raise, with a countrywide strike...