Word: stoop
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...zero. Of the nearly 90,000 NEA grants awarded over the past quarter-century, at most a few dozen have sparked any significant public controversy -- and the cumulative cost of all those was less than a cent a person, at a time when people often won't stoop to pick up a penny from the street...
...were trying hard not to act badly shaken. Running against a field of fringe candidates led by conservative columnist Pat Buchanan, the President had managed to win only 53% of the vote. The confusion about what to do next was obvious. Bush began by implying that he would not stoop to personal attacks on Buchanan, then immediately dredged up a nine-year-old article in which Buchanan called for making Social Security "voluntary." A day later, Bush changed tactics again. Campaign officials explained that Bush would not squander one of his bigger campaign assets -- the dignity of his office...
...shocked when I read the Globe article," Walsh said. "I couldn't believe that anyone would stoop to that level...
...have we really sold out enough to stoop to this level of putting the Olympics, our last bastion of healthy competition and wholesome sporting rivalry, into the same arena as pornographic movies? After the end of the Gulf War, and the Cold War, you would think America had the security to function with a little more class...
Someone who has risen as high as Trudeau has in the cartooning industry should not stoop (even temporarily) to publishing unproven charges. There are enough proven problems with society in general (and Dan Quayle specifically) to keep him busy for a long, long time...