Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democratic Party is in the midst of an identity crisis. The heart of the question is: Do we move toward the center for political expediency or do we continue fighting for our traditional progressive values...
...second at bat of his team?s 145th game of the 1998 season. He did it far more quickly than Roger Maris, in far fewer at bats, and indeed this race against history has been a foregone conclusion for weeks. Yet as McGwire watched that 62nd baseball rocket out toward left field and barely ?- just barely, this time -? clear the fence and become part of legend, all the weeks of anticipation melted into joy. And what the highlight films will show us, tonight and tomorrow night and down an endless trail of nights on into history, was this: Mark McGwire...
...moment was a chance to gaze backward, to 1961, to 1927, to the baseball heroes of happier times. And the game paused, with a leisurely euphoria, as fans of baseball and America took a good long look. But as McGwire hugged Sammy Sosa, lifting the Chicago Cub toward the heavens as fireworks went off above their heads, we were reminded: The future waits. Neither the home run race nor the 1998 season is over yet, and history is not yet done being made...
Even as spinning has become more egregious, the general attitude toward it has mellowed. Once it was disreputable. Then it became accepted, traditional, expected. Now it is positively glamorous. James Carville and Mary Matalin have become famous and wealthy by flaunting themselves as spin doctors. Every time you think the beyond-egregious Dick Morris has finally said something so preposterous that TV bookers will shy away, his appearances only increase...
HURRICANE BONNIE Tuesday, it was evacuate-or-die tough-guy talk. Then Bonnie rolled out to the ocean and left us feeling let down. Maybe that's because it was heading toward...