Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arrayed against them was a burgeoning New Right in war paint. It wanted nothing less than to demolish the welfare state, including Social Security, and roll back federal powers over business and the states, while aggressively challenging the communist world, to the brink of war (and beyond). Its intellectual center was the National Review and its founder, William F. Buckley, who started the magazine in 1955 in part to reclaim conservatism from the cranks, conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites who had dragged it into the phosphorescent margins of American politics...
Like the Main Street that guides customers into Disney's Magic Kingdom, the convention floor today is a construct, a shell, a dim, burnished reflection of what was once reality. They may even call the roll of the states to stir old memories of exciting summer nights from long ago, much as the first notes of Earth Angel or In the Still of the Night can set middle-aged hearts beating faster...
...that Bill Clinton will or can tell Netanyahu what to do. Especially during an election, Clinton is not about to get into a pissing match with Netanyahu. Furthermore, the Arabs have always had the mistaken notion that the United States has great control over Israel, that the Israelis would roll over if we only told them to. If it came to choosing between taking U.S money and pursuing their own policies, the Israelis would choose policy." Unfortunately for Arafat, the best hopes may still reside in working with the Netanyahu government. Scot Woods
...that Bill Clinton will or can tell Netanyahu what to do. Especially during an election, Clinton is not about to get into a pissing match with Netanyahu. Furthermore, the Arabs have always had the mistaken notion that the United States has great control over Israel, that the Israelis would roll over if we only told them to. If it came to choosing between taking U.S money and pursuing their own policies, the Israelis would choose policy." Unfortunately for Arafat, the best hopes may still reside in working with the Netanyahu government. Scot Woods
...pick Friday morning when he started telling reporters he'd gladly serve, if asked: "Quarterbacks are always ready," he growled. By noon, CNN was reporting that high-level Dole sources had put the question to Kemp, as a prelude to the big phone call from the candidate. The drum-roll peaks Saturday at noon, when Dole and his new partner meet the press in Russell, Kansas. Could Kemp put Dole over the top? The perky former quarterback may be just what the gloomy Dole needs. Five national polls this week showed Dole trailing Bill Clinton by anywhere from16...