Word: slates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reality, Harvard must convert on these, the lighter games on the Ivy slate, if it is to contend with the nationally-ranked Princeton Tigers for the league crown and the NCAA tournament's automatic...
...center of their own melodrama? Former Cabinet member Robert Reich didn't make things up until he left office. But then he packed his memoirs with numerous vivid scenes, including a Congressman jumping up and down screaming and an attack by cigar-puffing capitalists at a lunch, which Slate magazine showed in an Internet minute did not happen. And what was Senator Robert Torricelli thinking when he recalled with great emotion the anti-Italian bias he felt when he watched the Kefauver organized-crime hearings on a flickering TV screen? He was an infant at the time...
...power have the courage to make bold, immediate repairs. Hashimoto, the first Prime Minister in a decade to last more than 18 months, came into his second term last year boasting that he would reform the system or "explode into a ball of fire." He proclaimed the most sweeping slate of changes Japan has seen in a century, committing himself to a six-point program to reduce the size of government, liberalize financial markets and unravel the country's byzantine web of economic regulations...
...slate of candidates in this year's elections notably lacks an easily recognizable figure...
...world to clean up the union," says Ted Katsaros, a reformer who suffered beatings at the hands of mobsters in one of New York's most corrupt Teamsters locals. "Instead, we never saw him again." Adds Gene Giacumbo, who was elected a vice president on Carey's reform slate in 1991 but who later lost faith: "His election was supposed to bring democracy to the Teamsters, but no one who was elected with him was allowed a voice in the union...