Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Illinois, Hull faces a tough race; as challenger to 14-year veteran Philip Crane, her task is Herculean. But the English teacher and community activist is serious about her congressional mission. She supports the NEA and term limits and wants a thorough reassessment of the Defense Department to weed out a "scandalous amount of waste...
This system, introduced by Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards in 1975, did weed out a costly round of primaries for a Democratic Party that, for all practical purposes, was the only party at the polls, the Republicans usually fielding a challenger in name only. But with the emergence of an increasingly stronger Republican Party, critics argue that it is time to abandon an electoral process that they claim dilutes party meaning and favors candidates--and their constituents--from the political margins. For example, many political observers believe that the open primary facilitated the rise of former Klansman David Duke...
Banning leghold traps and hounding would keep countless animals from needless pain and suffering. This fundamental point is lost on some opponents of Question One. "Hunting is sort of like if you have a crop of carrots and the crop is coming up too thick and you have to weed some of them out so the rest will survive," says Melbourne Crouse, director of the Gun Owners Action League. "I don't think there is anything wrong or cruel about...
...Which is how a pair of my boxer shorts ended up in the garbage pail instead of the laundry basket," he wrote. "See, I was so caught up in pondering whether the lawn should get another dose of Weed & Feed that I lifted the lid on the garbage pail thinking it was our laundry basket. It was only an hour or so later, when I went to discard some peach peelings, that I saw my boxers there on the top of the heap...
...ridicule had any impact, the next pol faced with revelations of sophomore-year marijuana smoking might have responded with, "Sure, I did a little weed in college." But no. The next pol acknowledged that he had "experimented" with marijuana in college. Like the first pol, he said that he experimented very few times and that, in the full wisdom of adulthood, he regrets that he experimented at all. The next pol said the same thing. So did the pol after that...