Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christian Coalition. Asked to assess their candidate, 44 percent said Bob Dole's greatest strength is his experience in Washington. Delegates also liked his stands on economic issues and his age. Dole's greatest weakness? His campaign style was cited by 52 percent, followed by his age and his temper. One surprise for many that see the vice-presidential slot as an audition for the year 2000: Delegates are not nearly as enamored of Colin Powell as are Republicans overall. Only seven percent of delegates said they would like to see Powell as the party's candidate in 2000, while...
...exercise in the imaginary, doggedly following fictional rodents-turned-superstars around the park while assiduously crushing real-live ones under your feet, making a tour of the stars' homes (er, hedges...er, right-hand corner of mailboxes) while never seeing a movie star in the flesh. To temper the illusory, conserve the monetary and heighten the enjoyability, I have prepared the following list of observations and notes (hints? tips?) about Southland attractions. Read on, and remember: CARPE...
...scattering debris. Within 48 hours, he started all over again, telling CBS News that he would, if elected, "probably" veto the ban. A day later, Dole issued long-awaited platform language on abortion that reaffirmed the party's strong antiabortion plank just a month after he promised to temper it. By Friday the irresolution on assault weapons looked less like a mistake and more like a pattern...
...intelligent and idealistic young woman who for some time recoiled at even the most mild American-style dirty trick. "But it wouldn't be fair," Gorton recalls her saying when he advised that Zyuganov be trailed by heckling "truth squads" designed to goad him into losing his temper. At their first meeting across a long table covered in green felt, Dyachenko confided, "I don't know this business. I don't know what to ask." For a few weeks, says Gorton, "the task was simple education, Campaigning 101, stuff like the proper uses of polling and the need to test...
Dukakis' one moment of temper materialized when a student asked whether he thought California Governor Pete Wilson would run in the 2000 presidential election...