Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love him, loathe him or can't figure out who he is. But what Gingrich is becoming is this: the pre-eminent political leader in America. As the new Republican * rulers of Congress converge on Washington to begin their reign this week, they will find the Democrats still in shock from their repudiation in the November elections -- and grumbling that they are leaderless to boot. President Clinton, they complain, has yet to frame any coherent strategy for dealing with a Republican-controlled Congress. Said a senior Administration official: "Part of the strategy, to the extent there is a strategy...
...Osborne wrote, "is the one unforgettable feast in my calendar." It was the birthday of the playwright's beloved father Thomas, whose early, lonely death would scar young John for life. On May 8, 1956, in London, Osborne's play Look Back in Anger had its premiere -- a seismic shock that seemed to signal the birth of a new urgency and the death of the reigning theatrical gentility. "When I saw Look Back in Anger," said John Gielgud, a star of the old school, "I thought my number...
...worst shock was the March assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and Salinas' hand-picked successor. As a replacement, Salinas pressed the party's Old Guard to choose his Education Minister and Colosio's campaign manager, Zedillo, a Yale-educated technocrat. As a campaigner, Zedillo was so colorless that at one rally his wife had to nudge him to throw his arms into the air and shout "Viva Mexico!" at the appropriate moment. But he was committed to the Salinas reforms. Then in September came another blow: the killing of Zedillo's main...
...time to get down to some sort of shock therapy," Galluccio says...
...William F. Weld '66 signed an emergency act Wednesday that would grant a two-year reprieve of rent control's abolition for certain income-eligible tenants, but the act's limited protection for rent-control tenants have Cambridge landlords, tenants and officials in shock...