Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents, who tend to put their kids? futures ahead of slash-and-burn ideology, feel the same way. To win, Bush?d have to run to the center anyway - he?s just starting early. If his colleagues are smart, they'll do what the Democrats did in '96: Keep quiet and enjoy the ride...
...crass political analysis is to see brilliance; he won't win the artsy crowd anyway. Upstate voters, as well as the Roman Catholics across the state who often form a bloc of swing voters, will see him as protecting basic values. And Clinton must defend the art or keep quiet. Wisely, she chose the latter...
...year in prison for tax evasion following the collapse of their disco empire; soon after, they ventured into a more respectable branch of the hospitality industry. "People expected to see go-go dancers in the lobby," cracks Schrager, who is married with two young daughters. Yet Morgans was a quiet refuge from the city's hustle and bustle that quickly attracted a following from the high-profile worlds of fashion, media and music. "Ian sees value before anyone else in the industry, including me," notes Schrager's friend Peter Morton, co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe...
...quiet, religious man, Morris didn't much talk about his dream. "I didn't tell my mom until two days before I got called up to the majors," he says. "I had a job and a family. To drop all of that for something that was just a dream, I didn't know how she'd feel about that." He was also worried about his wife, who has to raise their three kids on her own while he is away. His former students still stop by his house to have dinner with Lorri and offer to mow her lawn...
...over the minimum wage. In The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 406 pages; $27), Nicholas Lemann describes the rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup d'etat" that the SAT accomplished in the 1950s and '60s, when it booted the Wasp elite by substituting classroom skills for the old-boy network as the key to college admission...