Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also led the outcry against destruction of 20 hectares (50 acres) of forest on Nairobi's outskirts so that roses could be grown for export. Maathai countered official claims that the site contained no indigenous trees with a photograph of herself in the cleared forest, clinging to the stump of a recently felled giant hardwood...
...against Bush's ancien regime. "Clinton is the personification of a system and a politics that don't work," Brown barked. "I constitute a challenge to the failed status quo." Only in the last few days of the campaign, when Clinton loosened up and displayed more passion on the stump, did he seem to hit his stride...
Throughout the primary season, the Democratic contenders have railed against Brown's assertion that they are part of a corrupt system that is rigged in favor of "big-money interests." Yes, it's the stuff of stump speeches, but corporations, political action committees (PACs) and wealthy individuals do have an unparalleled impact on the way the public chooses its leaders...
...paid workers nationwide. While a spokesman concedes that the candidate's wife Shelley has a role limited to "taking care of the man running for office," Bay's presence looms large. She is largely responsible for the seat-of-the-pants strategy that complements her brother's smooth stump manner and plays to his strengths. She helped create the effective antitax TV spot that parodied Bush's "read my lips" pledge on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. And it was Bay who advised Pat to pillory the President for < delaying the $500 middle-class...
...fringe candidate once. A Larry Agran getting little respect. A Tom Laughlin stepping from the movies to the stump...