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...Maryland, four states with significant Jewish populations (and 109 electoral votes in 1992) that Bush carried by less than 2 points four years ago -- while capturing approximately 30% of the Jewish vote in each. Bush would have carried those states even if his share of the Jewish vote had sunk to Goldwater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Bush's Reward For Courage | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...background and found out my mistake too late to drop the class. Worse still, I had proudly insisted on taking five classes because the administrator in charge of transfer students had contemptuously told me that no transfer student was smart enough to do this. Yep, I was sunk...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: One `First Year' Searches for God at Harvard | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...unremitting praise of virtually everything piscan has had its effect. Over the past 30 years, as American beef consumption has sunk, T-bone and porterhouse have given way to steaks of salmon, swordfish and tuna. Overall U.S. fish consumption is up 50% since 1960 and nearly 25% in the past 10 years alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Your Fish Really Foul? | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

Nonetheless, it is doubtful that the first Russian-American summit did Bush much good. He is in such poor political shape that Yeltsin, world peace and a cure for the common cold might not revive him. The public's regard for the dithering President has sunk to all-time lows: more than 50% of those + questioned in a recent survey disapprove of his handling of his job. "Bush had a pretty good substantive week," said a campaign official last Friday, "but the sad thing is that what we do has very little effect on folks. He's had such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking President | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...There was a lag time between Harvard alwaysgetting the person they wanted, and therealization that acceptances wouldn't come," hesays. "The realization has sunk in. Harvard is nolonger complacent about the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECRUITMENT: THE ART OF THE DEAL | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

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