Word: ushering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money where their mouths are," says former San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein, winner of the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary. "I think it signals a new day." Even Arthur Laffer, the supply-side economist who was instrumental in enacting Proposition 13, declared the end of the revolution he helped usher in. "If the state where the tax revolt was invented rejects it," he glumly asks, "can Washington be far behind...
...original Renaissance man. Yet he has created what Da Vinci dreamed of and designed, but literally never got off the ground -- flying machines propelled solely by human muscle power. These and other unique MacCready airborne contraptions have made aviation history, and his innovative electric-car designs could help usher in a new era in ground transportation...
...rubs the ball, the batter adjusts his jock, the manager spits tobacco on his shoes, the batboy sprints across the field for no apparent reason, the owner sells a racetrack, the designated hitter does a line of coke, the fat slob in the fourth row spills his beer, the usher sells a We're Number One felt finger, the mascot kisses a bikini-clad fan, the general manager exiles a third baseman to Cleveland for a player to be named later, the organist plays a march, the crowd bellows "Charge," an Eastern European government goes belly-up, a newborn baby...