Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...West Texas town of Midland, and Dickey, a young geologist at Bush's oil-exploration company, Spectrum 7, had come looking for some optimism--usually a good bet from Bush. After all, Bush was that lean, kinetic, glass-half-full kind of guy who loved edgy verbal sparring and dumb nicknames (he called Dickey "Total Depth," a drilling term that matched his initials). But this time Bush was fresh out of optimism. With his cowboy boots propped up on his desk, he was leaning back in his chair, gazing out the window at the parched and desolate landscape of Midland...
...University declared at the rally that it would fulfill one of the SAS's major demands by adopting a full disclosure policy of all Harvard apparel factory locations, it constituted the culmination of months of hard work. Still, the activists were understandably far from satisfied with Harvard's mere verbal acceptance of the need for change and have kept the pressure on the administration...
WINNER: Heston; in a verbal duel, he showed the most brass...
...they've whispered. But Bush has just smiled--his poll numbers have stayed stratospheric and the satchels full of checks are still coming in to his ZIP code. Last week Elizabeth Dole threw a tomato. Though she did not mention Bush by name, the former Cabinet secretary launched a verbal missile in the post-Littleton gun-control debate, declaring that it was "wrong to let people carry concealed weapons." Her target was obvious. Bush, who had signed a 1995 law allowing Texans to tuck registered handguns into their purses and coat pockets, fired back through a spokesman on the same...
...families' assets and homeowner's insurance wouldn't go far. The school district is another possibility, if it is shown that Columbine High officials ignored signs that Harris and Klebold were a threat. Among those warning signals: a videotape the two boys made simulating a school bloodbath; and some verbal threats made by Harris. Yet even if the school blundered, Colorado gives the government immunity except in rare cases...