Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite his shortcomings as a candidate, Perot could take some satisfaction from his first plunge into electoral politics. He demonstrated that Americans are hungry for leadership rooted in common sense and plain speaking. He was on the mark when he said, "If anyone wants to know who's to blame for the $4 trillion debt, just go look in the mirror." Voters did not recoil from such lines. On the contrary, Perot's experience suggests that Clinton and Bush missed an opportunity to use similar outspokenness in order to develop a mandate for bullet-biting reform...
Will the first-years in Straus get their housing choice because they are kept awake by the strains of Flathead, the mediocre street musician? What will be the renumeration for the inhabitants of Canaday because their dorm is just plain ugly...
...mainstay--lies. These days of Republican social division and deception, thankfully, are finally gone. But Bill Clinton's plans for the country, though they come from a man who seems to have the right priorities, are sometimes wildly optimistic (his projections for economic growth) and sometimes just plain wrong (his inexplicable penchant for the death penalty). Clearly, Bill Clinton is no Tom Harkin, and he's no Mario Cuomo. But he's no George Bush either. And that's why we should be celebrating. Bill has proven himself as a leader who has both principles and political skills. That combination...
...council. In the course of establishing an argument for structural reform in the council, Fernandez took plenty of potshots but offered no practical plan to replace the effective standing structure. Indeed, I find it difficult to believe that anyone could take this diatribe seriously after comparing it to plain common sense...
...never been clear to me that his appeal isto the plain folk--people at the bottom of theeconomic and social ranks," Fleming says...