Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michael Kornick, Four Seasons Hotel, Boston. Soup of cepes (mushrooms) Roast Wild Duck served with fresh huckleberry stuffing with chestnuts, local apples, sage Beets Shallots Salad with marinated brussel sprouts and endive Small apple and pear turnovers...
...anticipation of further disillusionment--in the form of an entrenchment of the Right--I invested in a small bouteille of Wild Turkey, into which to peer as swathes of elephants prepared to tread and defecate on major states. The Kennedy School of Government was already in Democratic rapture, as I cunningly displaced two old ladies from their front-row seats ("Look madam, there's free sex over there"--and off they rushed). But, decadently supine on my purchased seats, I felt it unwise to trust polls and estimates favoring Clinton. In Britain they are usually wildly askew, as the selfish...
...Smith's handpicked heir apparent, Stempel had loyally seconded the chairman's plans. "Stempel always voted with Roger on everything," says a GM insider, "even though he used to tell me he knew things were wrong and disagreed." So even as Stempel went along with GM's wild ride through the Smith era, he learned the hazards of sweeping change...
Perot's vagaries stopped but did not reverse his meteoric rise in the polls. Several tracking surveys showed his support at 16%, down a bit from around 20% but still more than enough to make Perot's wild-card effect on the campaign both important and unpredictable. The Texan is putting on a last-gasp TV advertising blitz like none ever seen before. His campaign has spent just under $60 million so far, and that figure will grow sharply in the final week...
...entitlement programs aimed largely at the poor. The failure to make a French-style commitment has much to do with the reverence Americans have for self-reliance. They cling to a new-frontier notion of rugged individualism, forgetting that those who actually braved the alien territories of the Wild West traveled in groups of families, not alone. Through the agrarian era into the modern one, Americans have continued to regard the nurturing of families as a personal issue rather than a public concern. "We have this notion," says research psychologist Arlene Skolnick of the University of California, Berkeley, "that...