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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only by sheer attrition, Bush will prevail over Buchanan and win renomination. In the meantime, the question is whether Bush's advisers can prevent the struggle from diminishing the President's chances in the fall. If Bush faces Bill Clinton in November, the President's aides think that their boss's World War II heroism and image as a devoted family man will compare favorably to the Arkansas Governor's record on at least those two scores. But the Democratic nominee, whoever it turns out to be, will be harder to beat if Buchanan keeps knocking the President off balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: How Bush Will Battle Buchanan | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...former apostolic delegate to Washington. According to National Security Adviser Clark, the Pope and Reagan referred to the ) "miraculous" fact that they had survived. Clark said the men shared "a unity of spiritual view and a unity of vision on the Soviet empire: that right or correctness would ultimately prevail in the divine plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Holy Alliance: Ronald Reagan and John Paul II | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...often the one who can afford to buy the most TV time. Proportional representation cuts two ways: it could keep a late starter from winning the lion's share of the delegates in California, New Jersey and other states, even though he might well have to do so to prevail. Most important, perhaps, late starters would face the insistent question: If the party needs you because only you can beat George Bush, why didn't you jump in at the start? The veiled -- or unveiled -- implication would be that the answer is political cowardice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Someone Else Leap In? | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...will endure and we will prevail. We won't prevail, though, if you all don't get going!" she said...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NARAL President Urges Women To Exercise Their Voting Powers | 2/21/1992 | See Source »

...side of this female ideal is that while lips and breasts should be full, the rest of the body is inevitably too fat. The nearanorexic demands made on models and actresses are well known. What is less discussed, and more relevant for most of us, is that similar standards prevail in the ordinary career world...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Barbie Doll Hell | 2/7/1992 | See Source »

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