Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time to the year 2000. Does anyone know what will happen when it reaches zero? NBC is promoting Y2K The Movie as part of its November sweeps week. And the only bug more famous than Jiminy Cricket is on the minds of every computer scientist, air traffic controller and politician...
...could be married in 24 hours," insists twice-divorced would-be presidential candidate Donald Trump, as if the all-night convenience store had brides on Aisle 3 for the politician who finds he's running low on family values. He twists the gooseneck lamp in the back of his limousine to shine it on his companion, Melania Knauss, a model just back from a photo shoot for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's swimsuit issue. "Is this the next First Lady of the United States or what?" he asks. She beams under the tiny spotlight, showing teeth like a prize filly...
...demurs in an interview. He just wants to "negotiate from strength. The U.S. shouldn't be powerless against a madman." As for Castro, Trump wrote that the Cuban leader should be tried for crimes against humanity as "the most abnormal political figure in our hemisphere." Hmmm. Isn't a politician who doesn't shake hands a little abnormal too? Trump says he's working on that...
...retired population, in order to keep the trust fund growing for future retirees. If a budget surplus actually does materialize, worthwhile goals like health care for the uninsured or--yes--even a tax cut ought to come before pouring more money into the trust fund. Where is the courageous politician who will say it's time to stop Social Security from raiding the government...
...California Democratic Representative Bob Filner's office, Lupita Jimenez, a children's book writer from Chula Vista, was taken to lunch in the Members' Dining Room. "All of a sudden, the entire California delegation came through the doors, and I blinked because here was almost every well-known politician I had seen on television!" she recalls. "I loved being an insider...