Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past two years, American politics has been split along ideological lines. Now, however, both candidates are realizing, once again, that most voters are closer to the center and yearning for sensible middle-ground positions. So the ugliness of the campaign has shifted, remarkably early, from exploiting partisan divisions to the old-fashioned mudslinging that usually marks the final days of the campaign...
...else, the centrist voters are key, and Kuptsov thinks Zyuganov has the edge in capturing them. "We should win, because more of those people are hurting economically than have managed to get rich," he says. Kuptsov sees the electoral math of a runoff like this: "Yavlinsky's support will split 60% for Yeltsin; we'll get 80% of Lebed's followers and 70% of Zhirinovsky's. The rest will be shared about equally." Agrees Andrei Kozyrev, Yeltsin's former Foreign Minister: "I'm afraid that might be exactly right...
Talk about the things that have happened in America since 1961, when you entered Congress, and what your thoughts are about what worked, what didn't and what you've learned in a party split on issues and a country going to extremes. In the past 27 years you've straddled, which may have been the only way for a Republican Senate leader to survive. You've had your paleoconservative moments--"Democrat wars!"--and an old-style, Midwestern aversion to deficits. You've also pushed through tax increases, and if you think you were wrong about some of your votes...
When Warren Buffett took control of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., in 1965, the stock was worth less than $20. With prudent investments in blue-chip companies such as Coca-Cola and Capital Cities/ABC, Buffett drove BH into the low thirties--$30,000, that is. By refusing to split the stock into smaller units, Buffett effectively kept speculators at bay, until a few cagey money managers figured out that they could form investment trusts with Berkshire Hathaway shares in their portfolios and then sell fractional units at affordable prices...
Chinese runner and double-world-record holder Wang Junxia, 22, clocked the fastest times of the year in the 5,000 m and 10,000 m at China's Olympic trials last week. Wang, a farmer's daughter, is recovering from leg injuries and a nasty split with her former coach Ma Junren. Under a grueling training regimen, "Ma's Army" of runners broke several records in 1993 but drew charges--never proved--that some members were given performance-enhancing drugs...