Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment, the two sides bicker. Focus-group research has convinced the Clinton team that they have a winning issue in Bush's reluctance to debate. Clinton campaign chairman Micky Kantor argues, "If you are going to develop a mandate -- and have a successful presidency -- it is important to use the debate process to reach 90 million Americans." But the rest of the campaign is about a mandate to govern as well. So the question remains: Will Clinton use his lead to talk honestly to the voters, or merely try to nurse it as he counts down the days until...
...Democrats, weary of the nonstop sniping from their twin 800-lb. gorillas, finally give in and nominate their all-egoist ticket. It is Jackson-Cuomo or Cuomo-Jackson. Naturally, the two are unwilling and unable to decide which of them should be at the top of the ticket. They bicker constantly, each with his own polls proving that he deserves to be his party's standard bearer. They ignore the opposition and battle to the end, to Jan. 20, 1997, when they are spied jockeying for position in the audience to watch the inauguration of President Quayle...
That's why it's so discouraging to watch the Democratic candidates squabble and bicker when they could be changing the way things work in this country. Mayor David Dinkins was on his way to Thomas Jefferson to visit what it termed one of the most violent high schools in New York when the shooting took place. What should have been an easy media sound-bite ended up as Dinkins trying to comfort an auditorium of terrorized students...
...retailer, accusing Laura Ashley of persuading customers to use other cards. As a result, the 520 Ashley stores around the world have had to stop accepting Amex charges. Ashley had been trying for some time to bargain down the fees it pays for purchases on the card. The bicker exploded into a brawl when a shopper, who turned out to be an American Express executive, was discouraged from using her card at an Ashley store in New Jersey...
...poverty. At the same time, liberals were able to broaden government support for working mothers. There are other signs that America is ready for bipartisanship: no line in George Bush's Inaugural speech received more applause than his admonishment to Congress, "They didn't send us here to bicker...