Word: slingshot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight for entitlements and family values. Nolan believes it's important to balance the federal budget, but not at the expense of Medicare, school lunches, food stamps and public education. Although a former environmental-education teacher, he can't count on environmental advocacy as a pebble in his slingshot, because the popular guy is an advocate...
...Palestinian police proved beyond a doubt that when push comes to shove, or as the case may be, when a slingshot becomes a well-directed gun barrel, they are not impartial enforcers of the peace process; their allegiance to the Palestinian cause takes priority over this process. This is not the first instance of the armed Palestinian forces' lack of resolve or so-called "inability" to restrain the enemies of peace. Original fears that the Palestinian security forces were not adequately equipped to deal with their own extremists have been substituted for the more worrisome concern that they...
...course, this is the kind of chaos the party meant to stamp out. By any traditional reckoning, it was going to be over by the end of March, when 66% of the delegates are technically chosen. The tight schedule of 29 states in five weeks was designed to slingshot an early front runner into inevitability. Now it may not even save one from ignominy. Dole alone has raised the money for the ads and traveling necessary in a multifront war. He has $6.4 million cash on hand (although he is bumping up against the primary season's legal spending limit...
...week series of TV ads. After New Hampshire, Wilson would like to rob Gramm of the Feb. 27 primary in Arizona. Wilson then hopes to win at least two, maybe more, of the five states in the March 5 New England primary. Gorton proposed using that as a "slingshot" into the media-mad New York primary just two days later. "If we can score big in New York, we'll look strong going into California [on March 26]--and I know how to win there," said Gorton before his fall...
...perhaps last Sunday evening there was an assassin at the theater after all. Of course, with the current state of the world, he probably forgot his slingshot...