Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sounds like he's on the campaign trail already," one junior quipped, as he listened to Andrew J. Green '99-'98 discuss the President's balanced budget proposal...
...presidential campaign trail, Bob Dole has been promoting a plan to give 4 million low- and middle-income students vouchers worth $1,000 or $1,500 and usable for public, private or parochial schools. States and the Federal Government would split the $5 billion cost. While dead set against using public money to send children to private school, the White House supports a form of school choice in which parents could shop among competing public schools. That means magnet schools, which offer enhanced programs, or the independent "charter" schools, now found in many states, which set their own rules...
...child," one of us said, "that is the point. There were no lights and cameras back then, at least not out on the campaign trail. And where now there are thousands, there were only a handful of us then, scattered across the campaign battlefield. And since there were so few of us, everyone in those campaigns knew who we were, and we knew them, and we knew that some words were meant for private consumption only...
...Better? We cannot say, for there was much to deplore. For one, chances are you yourself would never have been on the campaign trail; you would have been relegated to the research offices or the secretarial pool. Your sisters who wanted to work in campaigns would have donned cheerleader skirts and straw hats. For another, there were serious personal flaws in the candidates that we should have relayed to the people...
...find myself brooding over the same bear stories as Barbara Ehrenreich in her piece on vacationing in bear country [ESSAY, Aug. 12]. When I am out camping and hiking, every snapping twig in the dark is surely a grizzly. It's amazing how many stumps on the hiking trail look exactly like a bear rearing on its hind legs. I've read that on the trails you should alert the bears you are coming by talking, singing or wearing a bell on your backpack. I was not singing or ringing when my daughter and I recently hiked...