Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...G.O.P. would dearly like to win the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat David Pryor and persuaded Hutchinson, who was considered a shoo-in for re-election in the traditionally Republican Third District, to take a chance. Hutchinson, a balanced-budget hawk who proposed tough welfare restrictions for unwed mothers, is now declaring his respect for Pryor, vowing to protect Medicare and pledging to give workers a bigger take-home check...
...amazingly, as I circle the giant "Choose or Lose" bus, I can't find a single person connected with MTV. Standing confused and perturbed in front of the bus, I'm attacked by a horde of "Rock the Vote" volunteers, and I shoo them off rather impolitely. I harbor unnatural hostility for the Rock the Vote campaign, and for the idea of activist voter registration in general. They bother me in much the same way it bother me when playoff ticket land in the laps of casual fans. I have no real grounds to be annoyed, but still, there...
...wanted to move on. The Kansas Senator pushed to include a tiny change in an obscure piece of legislation that increased by one the number of deputies in the the U.S. Trade Representative's office. Although he asserts the job wasn't created for him, Lighthizer quickly became its shoo-in candidate. During his 2 1/2 years in that role, Lighthizer negotiated trade agreements that benefited the U.S. steel industry. Afterward, he joined the prestigious law firm of Skadden Arps as a nearly $1 million-a-year trade attorney and lobbyist representing, yes, steel companies among others. In that role...
...unacceptable when she announced last month that she opposed not only the party's strict antiabortion platform plank but also a ban on partial-birth abortions. That pro-choice stance has made her anathema to party conservatives and puts her beyond Dole's reach. Not that she was a shoo-in to be a heartbeat away. Dole may have taken a dim view of Whitman's short political resume, which before her term as Governor amounted to stints as a county commissioner and on the state utility board...
SCIENTOLOGISTS John Travolta and Nicole Kidman, shoo-ins for Get Shorty and To Die For, are shooed...