Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest industry PACs in the nation. It will be a difficult souffle to concoct, since it's hard to find politicians willing to stand tall for $50 lunches. But a week before Clinton even announced his plans, the group persuaded Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich of Nevada, where expense accounts run wild, to sponsor a bill that would re-establish 100% deductibility. Hours before the President's speech, angry restaurant lobbyists were telephoning Congress...
...high cost of lift tickets as well as the thirst for adventure. "What they don't realize," says Dale Atkins, who forecasts avalanches for the state of Colorado, "is that once they cross under that quarter-inch rope, they've gone from a safe, managed area to the wild unknown of Mother Nature...
...does not give arguments for why Mansfield, read correctly, is wrong. Instead, a wild interpretation of Mansfield's statement leads Ali to denigrate Mansfield (and Harvard). A door to a substle, real debate on the causes of grade inflation is slammed shut by Ali's excessive dramatics and demands for an official University apology. Who wants to voice views in this atmosphere...
...that will face passionate opposition from an ersatz alliance of many interests being hurt, and he seized on it effectively. In plain but strong language, Clinton pleaded with the public to weigh the mild immediate pain of higher taxes against the far greater eventual pain of letting deficits run wild. "Unless we change," said the President, "we will be condemning our children and our children's children to a lesser life than we enjoyed...
...wingbeat as gossamer and normally inconsequential as a Peruvian servant's lack of immigration papers stirred up storms over an Administration at the moment it was moving into the most powerful office in the world. Wild disproportions raged in from unexpected quarters. The famous double nanny disturbances and the fierce electrical displays over the issue of gays serving in the military had the effect of making Republicans, at least, cheerful for the first time since November...