Word: republican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican presidential hopeful Elizabeth H. Dole will dust off her pearls of wisdom for the graduating class of the Harvard Business School...
...latest epic? Consider: Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, written in the mid-'90s and shot in scandal-filled 1998, opens with a hot-headed character named Nute (pronounced Newt), whose attack on the defenseless planet of Naboo has all the speed and surprise of the Republican revolution. Nute's ally in the Galactic Senate is known as Lott, and Lott's main aim is to tie up Naboo's call to arms in committee, allowing it to die a quiet death, a la campaign-finance reform...
...environmental community must do more to build grass-roots support, but who is Al Gore if not the country's leading environmentalist? If the environment is ever to be civilization's "central organizing principle," surely it should be the central focus of Gore's campaign. That would force his Republican opponents and any Democratic rivals to respond, giving voters the opportunity to judge who can best protect the environment--and civilization--as we head into the 21st century...
...director of the Institute of Politics and former Republican senator from Wyoming wasn't supposed to give the speech himself...
...Jersey, the result of a two-month investigation that revealed that 77 percent of cars searched by state troopers were driven by blacks or Hispanics, was proclaimed by New Jersey governor Christine Whitman herself. While the visibility of the announcement -- Whitman is a rising star in national Republican politics and is running for the Senate in 2000 --will highlight the problem for many people, for most African-Americans, ?this will not come as a bombshell,? says TIME reporter Harriet Barovick. ?Many will remain skeptical that the mere revelation will bring any immediate changes.? Perhaps. But Governor Whitman has a record...