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...truncation three weeks ago, the numbers changed hardly at all. And it was he, not the media and his rivals, who made "too much" of the idea. Tax relief for the middle class was the centerpiece of Clinton's first economic plan and a staple of his early stump speeches and TV commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Second Chance | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...joke came from Tsongas' standard stump speech back in New Hampshire, but it still got some laughs: "I grew up in a disadvantaged family," Ramsey quipped. "My father is a Republican...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: New York Diary | 7/17/1992 | See Source »

...grow up corporate, Nader would say in his stump speeches, railing against Tony the Tiger and network television, praising good nutrition and reading. Nader says large corporations have too much influence over the government, and he advocates specific structural reforms to counteract those influences...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Ross Perot Looks Corporate to the Core | 7/7/1992 | See Source »

Walking through the Yard last weekend, I was shocked to find that nothing remains of my tree but a six-inch, vaguely heart-shaped stump and mounds of smelly, rotten sawdust...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: A Friend Gone To (S)lumber | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...noticed the kids in malls with crimson veritas t-shirts and caught the ubiquitous references to the school in movies and sit-coms. I was also struck by the virulent rhetoric used by then-presidential candidate George Bush. Bush, furiously trying to dewimpify himself, had a line in his stump speech about "Dukakis' Harvard liberals" and their elitist agenda on the left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Slice of Life | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

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