Word: prunes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parties have survived long term by accommodating reality. You don't hear Dole repeating his gaffe of a few months ago, reminding voters that he opposed Medicare back in 1965. Republicans have made their peace with Social Security, the Civil Rights Act, Medicare and so on. Any attempts to prune or reform these programs, however justifiable, are urgently identified as efforts to "save" them. Similarly, Clinton won election, and seems to be winning re-election, by leading his party's adjustment to the political landscape created by Reagan. Republicans have the delicate challenge of arguing simultaneously that Clinton has stolen...
...Last week a confused Dole official hunted for a positive explanation. "It's like they want to prove they're all thumbs so they won't upstage the big guy," he said. That could be it. It could also be that this plum is looking more like a prune...
Unfortunately, just deleting a program's folder doesn't remove these extensions from your System Folder. You should prune old extensions from your System Folder every few months. But don't put them in the trash right away, in case you take out the wrong file. Instead, create an "Old Extensions" folder on your hard disk and put them there instead...
...each meal. If everyone enjoyed themselves enough to hang around, there would never be enough room. Maybe the Union staff is trying to kick people out. Or maybe they're just trying to help first-years keep off the dreaded `Freshman Fifteen.' Like Plum Crazy Cookie Bars with prune paste instead of sugar, the backroom paintings discourage dessert...
...having survived a mountain of troubles, veteran vintners can look upon something like PD as just one more hazard of the business. "What the hell," says Jack Cakebread of Napa's prizewinning Cakebread Cellars. "Agriculture has always been that way. But it's a bummer. I just planted 350 prune trees that host the wasps that prey on the sharpshooter." He pauses to sip from a glass of his 1991 reserve Chardonnay and laughs. "Now if I can just figure out how to make prune wine...