Word: bustingly
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...draft--he decided, as everybody had always expected he would, to run for office. (At Yale they called him "Senator.") He was elected first to the Connecticut state legislature, which required him to knock off a maverick fellow Democrat in the primary. An early shot at Congress was a bust; he tried for it in 1980, when Ronald Reagan's coattails suffocated Democrats everywhere. But two years later he was elected state attorney general, which gave him the chance to make a name for himself on consumer issues. By 1988 he was ready for the Senate race, in which...
...priorities seem to have a shot at properly benefiting from a stay-the-course mindset in this prosperous age. Bush may be the unknown again now - he's left Gore room to cast him as a smiling face with a dark reactionary soul, whereas Gore, however disconcerting his sudden bust of fighting populism may be to the satisfied corporate-employed swing vote, has at least set definite limits to his crusade...
...priorities seem to have a shot at properly benefiting from a stay-the-course mindset in this prosperous age. Bush may be the unknown again now - he's left Gore room to cast him as a smiling face with a dark reactionary soul, whereas Gore, however disconcerting his sudden bust of fighting populism may be to the satisfied corporate-employed swing vote, has at least set definite limits to his crusade...
...fabled city could yield even more evidence of early Egyptian culture than divers have retrieved from Menouthis. There they have hauled from the sea a basalt head of a pharaoh, a bust of the curly-haired and bearded god Serapis and a life-size, headless statue of the goddess Isis, as well as gold coins and jewelry...
...boomer solipsism. You've already suffered through a lifetime of references to Woodstock and the Beach Boys and Vietnam. You've gritted your teeth as you endured the preening, self-congratulatory smugness that leads Ken Dychtwald, a gerontologist who has lately made his living warning about the coming boomer bust, to say, "Boomers feel superior to the younger generations. It wouldn't even occur to boomers...