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With a re-election campaign looming, an embattled President decided to chuck % his old program and go for broke. On national TV he proposed a multibillion- dollar package of tax cuts, including expanded IRAs for medical bills, education and the purchase of a first home. That evening, an upstart in the opposition party dismissed the proposals as "too little, too late." Later the critic added, "I don't think using the IRAs to finance college loans and health care, as the President proposed, is a good idea...
...year was 1992. The President was George Bush. The upstart was Bill Clinton...
Journalists who cover the computer and video-game business always look forward to the annual pre-Christmas visit from Trip Hawkins, chairman and founder of the upstart game-system company called 3DO. Hawkins is a rarity in the uptight game industry -- a straight-shooting top executive who actually enjoys the products he sells. His press tours, first as chairman of Electronic Arts and then as front man for 3DO, usually combine a lively round of game playing and a dose of blunt talk about the business -- shaded ever so slightly to set his own company apart. This year, however, there...
...Riordan threw his support to Senator Dianne Feinstein rather than Republican Michael Huffington. Ross Perot extended his vendetta against the Bush family across the generations by backing Texas Governor Ann Richards over First Son George W. Bush. In Pennsylvania, Teresa Heinz, widow of Republican Senator John Heinz, dismissed G.O.P. upstart Rick Santorum in favor of the more patrician Democrat Harris Wofford, calling Santorum "short on public service and even shorter on accomplishments." In the G.O.P., at least, the center would not hold...
...politically inexperienced Spokane lawyer with boundless energy and a shy smile, who set out to unseat a 22-year Republican House veteran. While the incumbent trumpeted his track record, battle scars and hard-earned seniority, Foley exploited a prevailing mood of anti- incumbency in the electorate. The upstart triumphed...