Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gray Davis, a Gore man, "is that they are disdainful of the process. The rat-a-tat Bradley despises is what politics is. This is what it takes to run for President now." Bradley sometimes seems nostalgic for a politics that never was. American elections have always been pretty rough. The Thomas Jefferson-Aaron Burr battle of 1800 was a major slugfest, and during the 1956 Democratic primaries, Estes Kefauver accused the sainted Stevenson of Mob ties and racism. (Kefauver lost.) As a student of history, Bradley knows all that, but he's gambling that voters actually mean it this...
...watched its astounding ascent from $212, when the S&P announced its newest pick, to $348 at the bell, I came to the somewhat sad conclusion--at least for a trader who thrives on identifying diamonds while they are still in the rough--that trying to game the S&P may be the single biggest way to make money in this wacky market...
...write this because the athletes here at Harvard have it rough and we should all pity them. Not at all. There are advantages and disadvantages that come with playing a sport...
...known for its size, stepped up its physical play beyond the normal parameters of rough hockey. It seemed that both teams had just called up the Hanson Brothers of the hockey classic "Slapshot" to fill their rosters...
That investigation, McCain has said, closing the loop, was every bit as painful as imprisonment. It was during that time his wife became addicted to painkillers--and he did not notice. His allies say the rough passage carved his political identity. "People get inspired to do great things by bad things," suggests Torie Clarke, his former press secretary. "In many ways being a POW was the best thing that happened to him as a person. And Keating was the best thing to happen to him as a public servant...