Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus, after vowing to "crisscross the country" savaging Democrats, Bush ended the week saying he wanted to "finish on a positive note." He began to talk extensively -- and belligerently -- about the Persian Gulf. But that shift hardly mollified the Democrats; citing the campaign-trail venues for the President's tough talk on the gulf, they accused him of using the crisis for Republican advantage. Bush indignantly denied the charge. Yet two polls released late last week suggested the new approach might be paying off: Bush's approval ratings appear to be leveling...
Larry J. Restieri '90 and Chris S. Bentley '90 are trying to blaze a trail to the top in the music industry--not as executives at Capitol and Columbia, but as guitarist and bass player for The Barley Boys. The Barley Boys are an up-and-coming progressive rock quartet including lead singer Scott Whelehan and drummer Tim Barnes, both of whom graduated last spring, from Dartmouth and Hampden-Sydney...
...spills. The Exxon Valdez dumped 11 million gallons of oil on one of the most environmentally pristine areas left in North America. While on the campaign trail, Bush called for "immediate" steps "to protect our oceans." Yet he has not disavowed his support of oil drilling in untouched parts of Prince William Sound. Finally, oil lobbyists are pressuring Bush to authorize drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Preserve, despite reports that indicate only a 19 percent chance of finding any oil there...
...much for theory. In practice, most of what he finds is conversations that go nowhere and meetings that trail off. "Cubans are verbally immobilized," he is quick to declare, and "waiting constitutes the inner dynamic of Cuba." The whole tropical police state, in his telling, becomes a land of silences, forged out of apathy or fear. By his first morning in Havana, the ever combative polemist is professing his fury with Castro. Soon he is committing himself to such statements as "It isn't hard to predict that in a free election the candidate Fidel Castro would receive less than...
...same basic Borscht Belt act for decades, but he seems to have a tireless capacity for self-resuscitation. A year after a sitcom flop on ABC, a much publicized racial slight of New York City Mayor David Dinkins, and an embarrassing paternity suit, Mason is on the comeback trail, ! windmilling in three directions. His latest book, How to Talk Jewish, is to be published in January. His weekly talk show debuts on cable in December with a novel solution to the perennial problem of finding good guests: there won't be any, just Mason schmoozing for half an hour...