Word: throwing
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...mend fences with gays before a presidential run? If so, it's one of many recent signs that he is seriously weighing a race for the White House. He says he "hasn't ruled out" a run; last month he said an independent candidate for President in 1996 would "throw some more fun into the race." Powell has taken public positions on more divisive issues than many realize, from the balanced-budget amendment (he doesn't like tinkering with the Constitution because Congress can't find the will to spend responsibly) to abortion (he thinks there's no excuse...
...Democrats get to throw some cheese of their own. The Republicans are going to be the Party That Canceled the Clean Air Act and Took Hot Lunches from Children, the Orphanage Party of Large White Men Who Feel Uneasy Around Gals. No matter who the G.O.P. candidate is, he will have to defend Newt Gingrich, and there may be happier ways to spend your life...
...ACCOLADES-AND THE MONETARY rewards-were gratifying, particularly to a working-class kid, the son of a plasterer from the London suburb of Watford. "He doesn't exactly throw money around," his sister Victoria, 21, told the Watford Observer, "but he feels we shouldn't go without and if he can help us, he does-he's our big brother. He loved his work and would put in up to 20 hours a day. He wanted to make something of himself because he knew he could." The press, she added, "seem to be saying that if you are working class...
...subsequent events. By Tuesday night, Mexico City motorists were driving past Salinas' house honking their car horns and hollering, ``Lock him up! Throw him in jail!'' On Wednesday, Salinas formally withdrew his now hopeless bid to preside over the new World Trade Organization, relinquishing a cherished ambition to become an international economic czar. And on Friday, in an act that summed up his political decline, Salinas fell back on a tactic normally reserved for those who have no other leverage: the former President began a fast, temporarily called it off and then resumed...
...League in scoring (17.6 points per game) and finished her career as Harvard's all-time leading scorer (1,605 pts.) and rebounder (1,053 rbs.). Feaster, meanwhile, led the lvies in rebounding (11.2 rpg) and was third in scoring, second in steals, second in free-throw percentage and third in field goal percentage...