Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tradition and give him an 11th term this fall. The former science teacher has been at the forefront of environmental issues, favoring taxes on high-level energy users, stronger clean-water and clean-air laws and increasing fees charged to companies that mine on public lands. Vento got a scare in 1994, when Dennis Newinski made a strong showing for the seat...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I relied on student loans to get through college and understand the concern over student debt. I'm not alone. Despite the false scare tactics by Democrats, loan programs command strong bipartisan support...
...believes that social services should be at least partially available to illegal immigrants and vows to fight cuts in Medicare and educational funding. The district is nearly 50% Latino and 48% Democrat, but it voted for Bush in 1992. Sanchez will need a large--and moderate--turnout to scare the nine-term Bob Dornan...
...disappearing, Lee unintentionally handed Bob Dole a gift. Lee's cash-and-carry approach exposed one of the most glaring loopholes in campaign-finance law and gave the Republican candidate fresh ammunition to use in his effort to scare up questions about the President's alleged corruptibility. "Here's a President who often talks about a bridge to the future; more often it seems it's a bridge to wealthy political donors,'' said Dole. "It goes through a Laundromat first and takes a left at the Democratic National Committee and then rolls all the way down to the Oval Office...
...yelping about my supposed fascist tendencies, Mr. Kaufman reminds me of those aging American Stalinists who attempt to taint anyone to their right as Nazis and still believe that communist traitors, such as the Rosenbergs, were innocent victims of the mythical "Red Scare." Or can I not mention anyone who is Jewish? --Christopher M. Griffith...