Word: shores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the Class of 1992 had just moved into their sophomore rooms when the storm struck. They had all been bracing for The Big One, but when Hurricane Hugo hit the shore, it was with more of a whimper than a roar...
...three-man race means a three-way split, that requires both Bush and Clinton to shore up their base support at all costs. "The question we're asking ourselves is whether there are enough conservatives and Republicans to make up 35% of the electorate," explained one Bush official. "Is our base big enough to win an election in a three-man race...
...times a week in 1970 and 1971. Sometimes the subject was casual, such as imploring a White House staffer not to eat on the plane so he could dine with Perot and his wife. Other times it was serious, such as agreeing to the Administration's request that he shore up Wall Street by taking over a nearly bankrupt brokerage...
...here comes Disney with Encino Man (May 22), in which MTV Valley Dude Pauly Shore digs up a frozen caveman, and Sister Act (May 29), with Whoopi Goldberg taking refuge from the mob in Maggie Smith's convent. Encino Man is already touted as "the Wayne's World of summer," and that's fine with Katzenberg, who describes his mostly low-budget summer slate as "the anti- 800-lb.-gorilla school of film-making." Disney's only expensive movie is, of course, a sequel: Honey, I Blew...
...support for the enterprise zones and tenant-ownership schemes that Bush favors, the elements that matter are these: an earned income tax credit that would ensure that those who work full time cannot fall below the poverty line; a proliferation of community financial institutions modeled on Chicago's South Shore Bank that would provide capital for inner-city businesses; welfare reform that would reduce benefits substantially for those who won't work; drug treatment on demand; national service, the plan that offers a college education to those who will "pay" for it with a period of community service at below...