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Discounted by the media with the two-word epithet "Governor Moonbeam," Brown was relegated to the second tier from the start. He doesn't have wellpaid publicists, speech writers or pollsters. With only seven paid people and all the rest volunteers--unheard of in a national campaign--he managed to outlast many rivals...

Author: By Michael H. Domesick, | Title: Beating the System | 3/18/1992 | See Source »

...trips to the state since announcing his candidacy last month. Taunting Bush for breaking his famous no-new-taxes promise of 1988, Buchanan signed a written pledge to that effect and challenged the President to do the same. Asked about the dare, Bush brushed it aside with a facetious two-word dismissal: "What pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barking Like an Underdog Prodded by a right-wing challenger, a folksy, feisty Bush hits the campaign trail with a vengeance | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

...people can absorb. The fact is, Drexel became the major source of capital for industrial companies in the country. Even our worst enemies think only a handful of people did anything wrong, so it's unfair to the vast majority of people at Drexel to lump them into a two-word tag line. The damage that's been done is absolutely unjustified. We grew quickly and we stepped on toes. But we did no more than other investment banks did when they hit periods of unusual competitive advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fred Joseph: We Grew Quickly and We Stepped on Toes | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...rendered Donald Trump's mid-life crisis as understandable as George Bush's aversion to broccoli, America's tabloids salivated over death sentences. Stays of execution drove big-city newspapers to dizzying heights of headline-writing competition. One memorable New York Daily News screamer took the prize with a two-word expression of considered opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Cuomo, the Last Holdout | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...victims of this odd malady is Tom's second wife Ellen, who in his enforced absence has become a star on the tournament bridge circuit. She has developed the ability to compute exactly the location of all cards in the hands of her partner and opponents. She speaks in two-word sentences and flaunts herself sexually like a pongid. The baffled shrink wonders, "In a word, what's going on here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Implications Of Apocalypse: THE THANATOS SYNDROME | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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