Word: trumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starchy GOP lineup doesn't fully explain the Democratic victories. The Democratic "trump card" was clearly the abortion-rights issue. During the campaign, which in some cases began to resemble a plebiscite on abortion rights. several Republicans backpedaled frantically from hardline anti-abortion stances. They either reversed their positions, as did Giuliani and New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Jim Courter, or minimized the issue, as did President Bush last Tuesday...
...Junk Bond Fund Drive. Derek Bok could lead a group of aspiring student financiers to Wall Street with enough of Harvard's endowment to buy out the Trump Shuttle. After renaming it the Harvard Shuttle, and promising that it will run on time, they could build a runway behind Soldier's Field...
...stop with the Trump shuttle? With the monstrous amount of cash in the endowment, Harvard could become the most feared corporate raider since Trump himself. We could buy the Holiday Inn chain and refurbish the rooms with blocked- in fireplaces, extra-- long beds, and light fixtures that resemble giant glowing alka-seltzer tablets...
...over $48,000 per year. Nor does it apply to "unearned" income such as interest on bonds. Thus, Social Security takes a huge bite out of a minimum-wage janitor's paycheck, while it costs next to nothing for a lawyer with a six-figure salary or a Donald Trump who makes his money by shuffling assets...
Abroad, Bush tends to turn Teddy Roosevelt's famous dictum on its head by speaking loudly and carrying a small stick. He did offer important new proposals on conventional-force reductions in Europe. Otherwise, he has allowed the Kremlin to trump him with a variety of strategic-arms offers, while he nonchalantly dusted off Dwight Eisenhower's "Open Skies" plan (to allow each superpower overflight inspections of the other's territory) and suggested a reduction in chemical weapons that Congress had long since ordered him to make. His offer of economic assistance to Poland and Hungary, as they attempt...