Word: countdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...done during the off-season. I started paying close attention to Yeltsin in Russia and Clinton's budget proposal. I sat through a one-hour special with Peter Jennings in which he told me and millions others that someone had better invade Serbia or you can start the countdown towards World War III. Then I spent two hours with my roommate discussing whether we would fight if drafted...
...friends and I were more actively political by our senior year of high school. I knew two or three people working for Dukakis and others working for Democrats in local races. At our school newspaper we posted a calendar that said "Countdown to Democracy" and marked off the days to the election. Half the newspaper staff wanted to write about Jesse Jackson but, as editor, I had to run an announcement in the school bulletin for 10 days before two students (out of 1200) came forward and admitted to supporting Republicans...
...clock of evolution had been reset; the countdown to Man had begun. The date was, very approximately, 65 million...
...This countdown mentality is akin to that of a child reckoning how long he must stay on best behavior until Christmas. The Clinton camp still only half believes the polls -- both the national ones that mostly give them a double- digit lead and their own state surveys that show them clearly ahead in such G.O.P. bastions as Florida, North Carolina and Kentucky. But along with success has come a cautious reluctance to mess with a winning formula. Nothing angers the Clinton cadre like the charge that they are sitting on their lead. "In the past few weeks, we've gone...
...CAMPAIGN: Countdown Mentality...