Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time since his trip to Bimini, Gary Hart will be a free man. Once the Iowa returns ensure his doom, Hart will be free to cruise the streets in a neighborhood near you. Mothers--warn your daughters. Donna Rice--unplug your phone...
...macaroni and cheese, and chicken pot pie, all of which, alas, pale beside memories of the originals. The menu also includes diet-destroying desserts like the $12.95 "Kitchen Sink" sundae. Dine-O-Mat's gravy has the consistency of fudge sauce, but the mashed potatoes are good, and the trip back in time is sustaining...
...shares one characteristic: an admirable ability to endure adversity. Babbitt, for example, is almost a model of humor and grace in the face of an indifferent electorate. And Simon survived a rocky start-up phase in mid-1987 when his campaign was derided as little more than an ego trip to nowhere. Like Dole, his initial campaign organization was a study in amateurish chaos, but Simon also belatedly displayed the grit necessary to move aside longtime friends in favor of political professionals...
...hypermarkets, which can cover five football fields, are springing up across the U.S. in places as diverse as New Orleans and Kalispell, Mont. The oversize stores provide the ultimate in one- stop shopping: customers can get a haircut, buy a refrigerator and stock up on paper towels in one trip. Most "malls without walls," as Walton calls them, draw crowds with an old-fashioned lure: everyday discounts. Prices are reduced as much as 40% below the full retail level. Hypermarkets make money even at such thin profit margins because they sell such an enormous volume of goods. Hypermarket sales average...
...Iran, not with moderates. Bush told Rather he believed Nir was talking about an Israeli operation. But Fuller's summary says Nir specifically told Bush how the Israelis had taken pains to mask U.S. involvement and even described what had happened when he accompanied Robert McFarlane on a secret trip to Tehran the previous May. On the campaign trail last week Bush said Nir presented him with only a "tiny piece of a very complicated puzzle," and he simply did not grasp its meaning. "I didn't know what he was referring to when he was talking about radicals...