Word: skirmishes
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...part, Buchanan is keeping a brave face. "This Reform Party skirmish is over," he said, perhaps optimistically. "It's on to November." At the convention he surprised nearly everyone by choosing a black woman as his running mate. Ezola Foster, a former Los Angeles schoolteacher, seemed the antidote to accusations that Buchanan isn't inclusive. And it also seemed right for this Summer of Love as the G.O.P. reaches out to minorities and Al Gore broke barriers by picking Joe Lieberman. But upon closer inspection, it was hard to see how the all-but-unheard-of Foster could energize Buchanan...
Such competition may be one reason for the p.r. skirmish, but another factor is the rising cost of gasoline. "All of a sudden people are saying, 'Oh, my gosh, what a horrible price to fill up my tank!'" says Senator Richard Bryan, a Nevada Democrat who is pushing for tougher gas-mileage rules. "Fuel economy has crept back onto the radar screen...
...race was a tiny little frontier skirmish in the much larger war between Ronald Reagan and the elder George Bush over who would control the G.O.P. heading into the 1980 presidential race. W. found that Reagan was actively supporting his primary opponent, Jim Reese, in hopes of weakening the Bush family hold on Texas. Though W. survived the primary, Democrat Kent Hance was far tougher, painting the son as a carpetbagger funded by East Coast fat cats and happily fueling constituents' concerns about the father as an agent of all those One World Government forces, such...
...birthplace. In Nauvoo, Ill., Mormons whose families lived there more than a century ago are returning to reconstruct their old temple. And the hotel owner in Kimmswick told us of the town's plan to re-enact the Civil War battle even though, he conceded, it was "just a skirmish...
...September of 1997, the PBHA Board of Trustees voted 12 to two to approve a compromise settlement that would keep PBHA within the University's purview indefinitely, ostensibly ending a three-year skirmish between students and administrators for control over the University's umbrella service organization...