Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political spectrum, his crude, combative style has largely alienated the state's traditional party Pooh-Bahs and threatens to scare upscale Democrats into Engler's camp. Some Dems, though, see a silver lining in Fieger's ascent: his in-your-face campaign style could lure a fresh wave of young voters, as well as win back blue-collar constituents and reinvigorate African-American voters outraged by Engler's conservative, pro-business policies. Fieger admits his mudslinging is starting to yield "diminishing returns" and hurting his effort to broaden his constituency in a general election. He says he'd like...
...through the comforting screen of normality. One moment, midmorning shoppers and workers bustle along Nairobi's Haile Selassie Avenue at the downtown corner where a bronze eagle and a fluttering flag mark the five-story U.S. embassy. The next, the earth trembles as a thunderclap unleashes a mighty shock wave. Seconds later, black smoke plumes into the sky as the tarmac ignites, flashing fire to parked cars and passing buses. The blast shatters every window within a quarter-mile radius into lethal slivers, blows the bombproof doors off the embassy, sucks out ceilings and furniture and people, pancakes a seven...
...laughs. He asks a woman at the counter how she wants her burger, and suddenly he's leading the crowd in a Cheeseburger in Paradise sing-along. The assistant captures it all on video, and Buffett is ready for his getaway. He ducks outside, gets on his bike. Another wave of autograph seekers hits him. "Sorry," he says, checking his watch. "Gotta go to work." It's a canard: he's already there...
...Democrats in this November's midterm elections. The outcome of the elections could determine Gephardt's future. If the Democrats pick up 11 seats, Gephardt becomes Speaker of the House, a prime launching pad for a presidential campaign. But if the Democrats lose seats in an anti-Clinton tidal wave, Gephardt's prospects could be seriously diminished. "[Gephardt] knows his fate, and the fate of the whole Democratic Party, is inextricably linked to Clinton," says a party strategist. "For now, anyway, we're all on the same side...
Even a trip to the emergency room may not save those stricken by summer heat. A new study tracking 58 heat-stroke victims of the 1995 Chicago heat wave reveals that nearly half died within a year and most survivors were permanently disabled...