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...Omaha debate was whether the 41-year-old Senator from Indiana had the intellect, temperament and judgment necessary to move into the presidency. Three times Quayle was thrown off balance when asked what he would do if he had to take over from George Bush. Quayle could only sputter bland inanities before falling back on his script about his congressional accomplishments. On his third try, he compared the length of his experience with that of John Kennedy in 1960. It proved a fatal flirtation with one of America's most enduring myths. With precision and rhetorical balance, Bentsen uttered four...
...folk freak. John Denver does not make my heart go `sputter, sputter,'" Woods says. She prefers the term "people music...
...past couple of weeks, the nation has watched itself roll toward ruin because people were losing their money in bales. If one were tasteless enough to ask a big loser what exactly he was losing, he would sputter, incredulous, "What am I losing? My boat! My car! My home, my beautiful home! My children's educations! Expensive schools! My clothes! My dinner! My dollars!" All true, every sorrowful word. People have been mourning the passing of their money for all the things that money can do, and what money can do is impressive. Money can build cities, cure cancers...
Less than 48 hours later, all public demonstrations were banned in Peking, as they had been a few days earlier in Shanghai. With that, the engine of student unrest began to sputter, though at week's end thousands of students took to the streets of Nanjing to protest the government actions. The ongoing demonstrations presented the government with one of its toughest political tests in recent years. The question: Could the Deng regime keep its promise to tolerate the dissent and open debate that seemed to go hand in hand with its free-market economic policies? The answer: a resounding...
Democratic leaders who had fought the aid request could only sputter their annoyance with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. It was the second time he had undercut a potential victory in Washington: four days after the House had rejected contra funding eleven months ago, he embarked on a well- publicized and ill-timed pilgrimage to Moscow. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who engineered the most recent defeat of the contra aid package, termed the invasion a "tremendous blunder" and disgustedly called Ortega "a bumbling, incompetent Marxist-Leninist, a Communist." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont quipped sarcastically that...