Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only thing worse that could happen for the Republicans now is if David Duke wins his run-off election in Louisiana next week. If that happens, maybe Bush will have to do more than just cancel a few trips. He'll have to close up that vacation resort in Kennebunkport, Maine and break out some bumper stickers and start campaigning...
...President said for months that he wouldn't sign a bill requiring businesses to resort to quotas to avoid discrimination suits. The breakthrough was engineered by Senator John Danforth, the Missouri Republican who shepherded Thomas' nomination through the Senate. Danforth believed that Bush's opposition to a civil rights bill was uninformed, and complained late last week that a White House analysis of his compromise bill, leaked to NBC News, misrepresented the facts. Within hours, the year-old White House stalemate collapsed. Asked afterward if Bush "owed him one," Danforth replied, "I don't think he feels that...
...criminal Meyer Lansky was an immigrant math whiz with a hunger for self-improvement. As a poor, dishonest kid on the streets of New York City, he quickly learned that if you can't beat the odds, change them. Using sound business principles, he laid the foundations of modern resort gambling. In his later years he hired tutors, was a regular at the Miami Beach Public Library and a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club. To his retired cronies he was an engaging cafeteria philosopher. His underworld associates found his ethical views sufficiently compatible to still trust...
...president goes on vacation to a seaside resort, but a crisis erupts while he is away. The vice president tries repeatedly to telephone him, but finally has to report to the legislature that he could not get through -- apparently because the president could not be bothered to pick up the phone. The public business will simply have to wait until the chief returns from his two-week vacation...
...even for a satirical farce. Substitute some Russian names, and it becomes a straightforward recitation of facts. Vice President Alexander Rutskoi really did report to the Russian parliament early in October that he had tried a dozen times to reach the vacationing President Boris Yeltsin at the Black Sea resort of Sochi to ask what was to be done about a looming crisis, but failed. In reality as in fantasy, the script was singularly unfunny. As the first snows start to fall and a difficult winter looms, Russia is paralyzed by a web of incompetence. The wave of hope that...