Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Earth Day speech last week, his toughest critics were those green activists who had supported him so wholeheartedly during the presidential campaign. When the speech was over, you could almost hear the environmentalists heave a communal sign of relief: their new President showed he really does have a green streak. Reversing a stand that Bush took at last year's Earth Summit in Rio, Clinton declared that the U.S. would sign an international treaty to protect the diversity of living species. And the President followed through on a pledge that briefly seemed in jeopardy: he committed...
...Forge, New York, who had a motorboat, which he sometimes used with his hell-raising friends to splash the docks while people were sunbathing. When he was at home, Steve's father dominated the household with his hyperactivity (he could not sit still for a conversation), his romantic streak (he once turned the banks of a lake into an open-air movie studio with multiple cameras so that he could film his son ski jumping) and his mixture of gentleness and bombast. One of Steve Wynn's childhood friends, John Meagher, recalls wanting to leave the Wynn home after...
Speaking of which, have I mentioned The Streak? Ripken is last closing in on Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak of 2,130; he's due to pass that figure in mid-1995. Some have suggested that a rest might do Ripken some good, that his offensive numbers in particular are hurt by the fact that he plays through minor injuries and without physical rest...
...look now, but with Saturday's win over Yale, Harvard (3-7 overall, 1-3 Ivy) has a little winning streak going...
...took some draconian legislation to get the wheels rolling. A California law with a distinctly puritanical streak mandates that by 1998 2% of each manufacturer's new cars sold in the state must be emission-free or stiff fines and penalties will be levied against the makers. Those standards match only one known product in the world market: the electric car. And they are just the beginning. Within another five years, the state's Clean Air Act will require that fully 10% of all new vehicles must comply -- a minimum of some 200,000 cars a year. Says Bill Sessa...