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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work, distributing condoms in the schools is wrong--one wonders why he has remained a Democrat as long as he has. He hints at the answer: "As fate had it, I had accumulated some small amount of influence in the ongoing Democratic dialogue. That was not something to squander." The result is a book that reads like a cynical proposal to land a big fat political consulting contract for the '96 election--and any candidate who heeds his words will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: IT'S VALUES, STUPID! | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...party is about to nominate a man who does not excite the party's rank and file; a Washington insider in an age when the term has become an insult; a closet centrist with a hard head and a bleeding heart; and, most worrisome, a candidate who might squander the party's chance to exploit Clinton's weakness and gain a new Republican dynasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOB DOLE: FACING THE AGE ISSUE | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

Maintaining that momentum will take patience, and, Reed admitted, "some degree of retraining of me." Though he says he dislikes the word control, dominance of the Republican Party remains the movement's ultimate objective. But by grabbing for too much of it too soon, he could squander the incredible gains he has made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO RALPH REED | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...Arlen Specter(R-Pa.), a moderate who supports abortion rights, launched his long-shot bid for the1996 GOP presidential nominationby warning that Republicans would squander an historic chance to control both Congress and the White House if they abandoned the political center. "Let me say this as plainly as I can," Specter, 65, said in a speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "Neither this nation, nor this party, can afford a Republican candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up by re-electing a president of the incompetent left." Is he right? In an interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTER, FRONT AND CENTER | 3/30/1995 | See Source »

...last week's council meeting, many members protested a motion that would have added a House office hour to their regular council office hour. Now we ask, why do the council members want to squander that precious hour on matchmaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 2/18/1995 | See Source »

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