Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "This isn't a token campaign. [Matt Salmon] isn't going to think it's token. He will have serious opposition...
...MATT SALMON (R) District...
...trunks of enormous redwoods and Douglas firs rising as if to hold up the sky. Greens nationwide had hoped for a pact that would have spared some 60,000 acres--all six ancient groves, and the partly logged land between--as habitat for spotted owls, peregrine falcons and coho salmon...
...club membership--approach her writing the way they might a car wreck or a Peter Greenaway movie: they know it might repel, but they are forced to have a look. For two years Bushnell's column "Sex and the City" has appeared regularly in the New York Observer--a salmon-colored weekly paper doted on by Manhattan's media elite--offering bleakly funny reportage on dating rituals among the city's most physically and financially privileged. Now 25 of her pieces have been compiled in a book, also titled Sex and the City (Atlantic Monthly Press; 228 pages; $21), which...
These dispositions help explain why voters are now being treated to a lavish round of political pandering. The cycle goes something like this. Some aggrieved group begins to complain: gas prices are too high, beef prices too low, liability insurance too burdensome, there's a salmon surplus driving coho prices down. Clinton and Dole rush in with their offers: sell off part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (Clinton's offer), repeal the gas tax (Dole's offer). The moment one candidate makes a bid, his rival tops it. The immediate goal on both sides is simply to control the news...