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...brutal standards of Campaign '94 this is tame stuff, but it marks a distinct change for Foley. In past years, he ran his races quietly and mildly, with ads that showed him standing in a wheatfield and talking about his homesteader roots, or walking the Capitol corridors with his beloved Belgian shepherd Alice, who used to go to work with him. He is, after all, a man who began his congressional career three decades ago by holding a reception for the man he defeated. Nethercutt, who had been blasting Foley for months, seemed genuinely surprised by the Democrat...
...true to form, the Harvard student body has filled the posterboard with such comments as "They get good parking spaces." Other notable entries: "They always want to be called something-something challenged." And then there are the less tame entries that will not be repeated on this, an editorial page of a family newspaper...
...Stein club is a tame, small event," said house committee co-chair Julie E. Peters '94-'95. "It is not a situation in which alcohol is abused...
...borderline between love and loss, where a lover's rancor is so delicately phrased that it sounds like sisterly advice. Everyone is tyrannized by memories -- of a lonely childhood, of words said and chances missed, of a first love whose sweetness makes everything that follows seem both tame and tawdry. Around here, folks smile to keep from screaming...
...White House officials why Bill Clinton is unpopular, and the answer is almost automatic: Americans, they say, don't give him credit for their improving economy. Though growth is robust, inflation is tame and unemployment is at a four-year low, the officials argue that the uneven nature of the expansion has kept Clinton's approval ratings stuck...