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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minority doesn't necessarily think the bill is bad. No, it's just politics as usual. Take the example of gun control. An insane gunman shoots President Reagan, but somehow Reagan feels enough like a duck to let that water slide off his back. In short, he doesn't support gun control--until he's out of office, when he becomes a staunch advocate of the Brady Bill. Did you ever ask Bob Dole if he's for gun control? He might be once he gets out of politics...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Inaction Rules In D.C. | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

Kohl's Big Slide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week October 16-22 | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...Often, tenure provides a way for people simply to slide by and not do the work which you require of them," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus Daniel Bell...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Ever Innovative, Bennington Abolishes Tenure, Departments | 10/26/1994 | See Source »

Instead of letting the attacker make the first move on her, Cummings charged towards the player and slide-tackled the ball off her foot and out of danger...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: W. Soccer Garners Big Win Over Penn | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

...Fields, struggling Okie farmers battle the farm depression of the early '80s, "when the bankers swarm like locusts out there, turning away our yield." Lookin' for the Time tells of a forlorn streetwalker who dreams of the day when she can afford to let the cruising "limos just slide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Little Gifts That Just Happen | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

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