Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duke's disenchanted voters not only want to sweep out the old professional governing class; they want someone to crack down on crime, drugs and welfare cheats. In a time of high unemployment, they want assurances that their job security will not be further eroded by affirmative action and set-aside programs. Duke bristles at the suggestion that he exploits racial fear. But until he offers credible evidence of change, other than his professed embrace of the Christian faith, that protest rings hollow...
While such lessons may be inspiring, they are not likely to sweep a large number of women into office. Women's groups christened 1990 the Political Year of the Woman, but only one of the seven women who ran for the Senate last year, Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, was elected; she voted for Thomas last week. In Congress pro-choice activists have helped pass a bill to overturn the gag rule that now forbids doctors to discuss abortion at federally funded clinics, but they cannot muster enough votes to override Bush's veto. Next week the Senate will take...
...before reporting that a young female staff member was drowned in his car at Chappaquiddick, and stonewalled for much of the subsequent investigation, must have wanted to avoid the moment that faced him last Tuesday when the situation required a public statement on Hill's allegation: "The Senate cannot sweep it under the rug, or pretend that it is not staring us in the face." Other members have had personal embarrassments as well: Senator Dennis DeConcini is one of the Keating Five; Senator Joseph Biden had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race because of plagiarism; Senator Patrick Leahy...
...power of men, corrupts the entire relationship between the sexes, deprives us of the moral talents of both men and women and serves further to divide an already fractured society. It is a gain for us all that the women's movement will not allow us to sweep that dirty little secret under...
...outshot Yale, 18-8, but neither team's chances forced goalie acrobatics. Co-Captain Kristen Fowler was Harvard's big gun today. In the first half she blasted a corner shot right by the goalie, but defender Sandra Lujic, who was positioned right on the goal line, managed to sweep the ball away...