Word: send
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tolliver's candidacy is somewhat quixotic. A young African-American writer, he is running against a two-term incumbent in a 72% white district that includes Bill Clinton's hometown. With a "black agenda" that criticizes "white men who don't know anything" for writing laws that unjustly send black men to prison, Tolliver might not have a prayer. Nevertheless, he's running to make a better life for the "common folk" and believes a balanced-budget amendment is a fine idea once all Americans have adequate food and shelter...
...Army-Navy matchup in space territory, this former submarine commander hopes to surgically remove his first-term incumbent opponent. Byron stresses educational issues, especially supporting federal student-aid programs. A private-school graduate himself, Byron opposes efforts to spend public funds to send students to private schools...
...thousand-acre farms, Ewing's chairmanship of the Risk Management and Specialty Crops Subcommittee makes him a formidable foe. His bias toward his district's needs--he guided a controversial farm bill through Congress last year--sometimes aggravates his G.O.P. colleagues, but Ewing knows they don't vote to send him to Capitol Hill...
...African American, this former heartland Republican district has changed dramatically over the years. Naughton, however, who calls himself a Reagan Democrat, believes that fighting for tax relief, opposing abortion and giving parents a chance to send their children to private school will strike an appealing chord with the predominantly working-class people of the First...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "There is nothing going on in the Balkans that is worth losing one American life over. I will never vote to send my neighbors' kids into that meat grinder...