Word: upset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McGuire said that many conservatives were upset at the lack of political balance between Guinier and Gore. The two are too close on the political spectrum, while Edelman and Powell embodied more of a liberal-conservative balance, students...
Rove, who first met George W. in 1973, designed Bush's upset of Democratic Governor Ann Richards in 1994 and then got the political world's attention by making sure that Bush's re-election margin in 1998 was an overwhelming one. The Governor got 68% (with more than 40% of the Hispanic vote), which made Bush an automatic contender for the 2000 nomination. "Karl knew that a dramatic victory was the best way to launch the presidential campaign," says another Bush aide. "So he ran up the score." There is now a Republican holding each of the 29 statewide...
...many may be shaken. "It never seemed real, even on TV," says Jordan Brown, 13, of Bakersfield, Calif., prowling the building's exterior crannies with her mother. The Browns used to live in the Littleton area, and Jordan's brother Garrett, 17, who had friends at Columbine, was too upset to make the visit. "I thought the school was much bigger," says Greg Owens, 36, a Chicagoan who routed himself here after taking in Pikes Peak and Colorado sites. "But it sure touched me. For two teenagers to have done something like that...
...nobody leaves. Except to be sick. Some viewers have vomited during particularly tense scenes. Others get motion sickness from the jerky camera style. At the picture's climax, a Chicago woman let out a full-throttle scream. She was still shaking as the lights came up. "I'm too upset to talk," she said as a friend comforted her with...
...longtime Springer supporter, I'm upset that the media aren't taking his candidacy as seriously as Hillary Clinton's. Hillary has never run for office; Springer was a five-term city councilman and a two-term mayor of Cincinnati who wrestled a bear during his tenure. And while I don't know Hillary's opinions other than on health care and how mental abuse leads to randiness, Springer drops science at the end of every episode. There isn't an issue he hasn't examined. Forget Social Security and child care. This guy has looked into...