Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battered Nevada (its band having finished The Star-Spangled Banner) managed to get up enough steam to proceed majestically out into the channel to the sea. Despite a gaping hole in its bow, its guns were firing, and its torn flag flew high. As it edged past the burning Arizona, three of that doomed ship's crewmen swam over, clambered aboard and manned a starboard...
...becoming the litmus test of American politics. It was a central issue in this month's senatorial race in Pennsylvania. Little- known Democrat Harris Wofford, who called for a health-care plan that would cover all Americans, easily defeated former Governor Dick Thornburgh. As the 1992 presidential campaign gathers steam, every Democratic candidate is putting universal health care at the top of his agenda. While Nebraska's Bob Kerrey proposes a comprehensive plan that would require substantial new taxes, others, including Bill Clinton and Tom Harkin, are fashioning less costly approaches that emphasize preventive care. Says Harkin...
...California's destiny will have to ride on its economy. But will ; the state's economy grow quickly enough to keep up with its population? That was far easier in the '80s, when growth reached a full-steam 7%. During those years, however, an exodus of businesses from California was also beginning, and manufacturing quietly declined 18%. States from Nevada to Oklahoma are trying to entice California companies with lower taxes and wages, less regulatory hassling and far more affordable housing. One aerospace-component manufacturer with a 40-worker factory in the Sacramento Valley got phone calls from Texas Governor...
Once the campaigns pick up steam, there will be a variety of issues--such as the budget, education, health care and abortion--that will become prominent, students...
Despite an overabundance of leather, the offices resemble living rooms. There are 14 dining rooms, a gym with a sauna and steam room, and a pool; the women's facility, by contrast, has been described as "six hair dryers and a Ping-Pong table...