Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe when you're far off in your welldeserved retirement, your successors will get tired of us and throw us a sop. That would be nice. Did we mention that we're going to poster at Commencement, too? Maybe we can get balloons with House shields on them and scare Vaclev Havel away. The pink balloons really seemed to disconcert Colin Powell...
...racism that still lies latent in many communities in white America. This rhetoric often relies on stereotypes, such as Reagan's reference to "welfare queens" or the "Willie Horton" advertisement associated with the Bush campaign. In the past, only rabid racists like Jesse Helms would try to scare white men with unsubstantiated claims that affirmative action would steal their jobs. But now, even Bob Dole is trying to demonize these programs...
...media wants to promote scare stories and do not want to tangle with homosexual advocacy groups," Thomas says. "HIV is not linked to AIDS...
Debt doesn't scare Kerkorian. There is always something you can sell to pay it off. After he bought MGM in 1969, he sold off the studio's choicest assets, from its immense library of old films to warehouses filled with props and other paraphernalia. Later he added United Artists, but for him it has always been the deal, not the business. In one famous Ping-Ponging transaction, he sold MGM/UA to Ted Turner for $1.5 billion in 1986, then bought back everything but the film library for less than $800 million, and then sold it all again...
Deep inside each consensus-building, big-tent Republican running for President lies the awful knowledge that one false step into the swamp of abortion politics can drown you. Say anything but that you are pro-life in the primaries and you will lose the nomination, but scare the pro-choicers and you may lose the election. So what's a candidate to do? Robert Dole, Phil Gramm and Lamar Alexander all claim the pro-life label, but not the mantle. They wrinkle their noses, say they personally don't like abortion-as if a personal preference substitutes for a clear...