Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...data left no doubt that Bush is suffering. Matched against Clinton, Bush ran only slightly behind the Democrat. But other trends were stark enough to set off alarms at the White House. The President's job-approval rating fell to 30%, a dip of seven points since May and the lowest score he has received in any TIME/CNN survey. Just two months ago, 60% judged Bush a "strong and decisive leader." That figure dropped to 45% last week. Bush's advisers concede that his ambivalent response to the Los Angeles riots damaged his image as a leader...
...quickly. President Ross Perot, making good on a campaign promise, gets on the horn to the TV networks and organizes one of his famous electronic town meetings. That night, before a television audience Murphy Brown would die for, he lays out the nation's precarious economic situation and the stark choices the U.S. confronts. Even before his presentation is over, the returns begin to pour in -- by telephone, fax, computer modem, videophone and two-way interactive cable TV. By morning, the will of the American people is clear: they have decided to cut back on Social Security payments, further slash...
...divisions were stark, and cut along obviously racial lines: Blacks versus non-Blacks, glaring across a gulf. No communication. No middle ground...
...GUARANTEE JOBS. The current welfare program could be replaced with a system of government jobs modeled on the Works Progress Administration that employed more than 8 million American workers during the Depression. In his forthcoming book, The End of Equality, Washington-based journalist Mickey Kaus outlines a stark and simple plan that would replace welfare with a guaranteed- employment program: he would prohibit new people from being added to the welfare rolls, eliminating handouts and offering instead day care and WPA- type jobs on useful public projects -- sweeping streets, building roads and parks, doing clerical work and the like. David...
AFTER MONTHS OF PENNY-ANTE POSTURING, THE stakes in the presidential campaign moved sharply higher as Bush and Clinton blew some rhetorical smoke over the volatile issues of race, class and domestic neglect. So stark a reminder of the challenges facing the nation might have helped focus an erstwhile inchoate campaign. But neither candidate seized the opportunity to demonstrate much leadership; instead they bickered about the Great Society and settled for scoring some political points...