Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, Democratic incumbents have yet to take their turn at bat; most will improve their standing -- and drive up the negatives of their opponents -- once they get out of Washington to campaign at the end of this week. Those with seniority can remind constituents of the pork-barrel spending, the tax loopholes and other goodies they have delivered for big employers in the district. Democratic strategists predict that the threat of a Republican takeover of Congress -- and of cuts in programs popular not only with the poor but also with the middle classes -- will help mobilize their force...
...more gallant, never seemed more aware of its glorious past and its tenuous future, than on Tony Award night this past June. Musty old plays and musicals hogged the spotlight from newer works. Producer George Abbott, 106 years old and looking every minute of it, showed up to remind the assembled swells and the TV audience that Damn Yankees, which he had confected four decades ago, was again the liveliest show in town. The cathedral of commercial theater had reopened as a museum and a mausoleum. The place was awash in memories of more glamorous nights...
...organizers, that required a special sensitivity. Lecturers had to remind themselves not to treat the Russians like graduate students...
...Western and Southern states where his popularity is lowest. Even so, Democrats are not running away from him everywhere. Later this month, the President will be campaigning intensively in several states where the party believes he can help, including Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri. His job will be to remind voters that the economy is in the best shape in years, the deficit is declining, and his Administration has ushered through a significant run of legislative successes on such things as the North American Free Trade Agreement, crime and family leave...
While the G.O.P. was turning up the heat, so was Clinton, but to somewhat less effect. All week he phoned House members to remind them that there was "a lot of good stuff" in the crime bill. To make sure that lawmakers understood just how much of it was earmarked for their districts, Democratic congressional aides prepared a state-by-state breakdown of which places would be getting which dollars. For the Black Caucus members, Clinton promised to draft an Executive Order decrying racial disparities in the application of the death penalty in federal prosecutions. Attorney General Janet Reno also...