Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...KISHLINE, 38, OF ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THE MOMENT OF truth came one evening several years ago, when she consumed a single glass of wine with dinner. According to the most cherished tenets of all the A.A. meetings she had attended since her late 20s, that tiny slip off the wagon should have been enough to condemn the young mother of two to repeat her history of uncontrolled drinking. Instead, she says, "I realized that it was my choice. That this one glass of wine was a small, though enjoyable, part of my life." She found that she could limit...
Before The Game, Harvard's season seesawed back and forth; the Crimson would be brilliant one week but mediocre the next. After seven consecutive weeks of wins then losses, the wheels finally fell of the wagon. Harvard dropped its final three games, to Brown 23-17, to Penn 33-0 and to Yale, of course...
Tournament Upsets: I've got to jump on the Wisconsin-Green Bay band wagon. Last year they beat Jason Kidd and California. This year they get Purdue, the Big Ten (11) champs...
...many speeches are for free: to kids in inner-city schools, to inmates at a prison in Lorton, Virginia, to a veterans' hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Powell quietly helps out at a homeless shelter in Washington, organizing a clothing drive and delivering mattresses on the roof of his station wagon...
...than half when it was pointed out that Social Security--one of those ways, invisible in Gramm's rhetoric, that government benefits all those who pay for it--might have to be cut to balance the budget. Gramm knows the score: after thundering away at those who "ride the wagon on welfare," he acknowledged to reporters that he would not tamper with Social Security to cut the deficit...