Word: trumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will prosper? As long as nearly half the world's air traffic originates in the U.S., the American carriers that have built tough, lean systems will hold the trump cards in the new partnerships. U.S. consumers, for their part, will benefit from the arrival of foreign carriers to the domestic market because their arrival will assure a high level of competition. The challenge for the government in all this is to make sure that every time it opens another door to a foreign carrier, some equal opportunity is created overseas for one of America's flag carriers...
...your trump...
...your hateful little trump...
Sometime this summer -- it's probably already happened -- you will hear that hateful little trump. At the first sound of its intensely annoying whiny hum, faint but frantically high-pitched, you'll hold stock-still, on full alert, hand raised at the ready. And then: splat. One less mosquito to trouble the peace of man and beast...
Politics, Bill Clinton has explained, is like football. Elaborate strategies are crafted in advance, but execution and stamina trump planning and practice. Reality defies theory, confusion reigns, new tactics are implemented on the spot. At some moments, the best defense is a good offense; at others, the best offense is a good defense. In both battles, the winners are hailed as professionals and the losers are derided as amateurs -- and for more elections than the Democrats care to recall, the Republicans have been the professionals. Until now. With the G.O.P. convention only two weeks away, the Republican incumbents are acting...