Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent his weekend evenings with a microphone trained at lit windows in the hope of detecting a party to bust. "Out of the hallway!" I shouted from the doorway, where I remained for the better part of an hour, nursing a mug of Milwaukee's Best Extra Gold Draft Lite while hordes of first-years, who can smell keg beer from anywhere on campus, tramped up and down the stairwell...
That quality had sustained Clinton throughout an unusually harsh campaign season. Starting last January, he repeatedly had to persuade voters that despite what they were hearing about Gennifer Flowers and draft evasion, he was a reliable agent of change. This fall, desperate to catch up, Bush ferociously attacked Clinton, but the President won a Pyrrhic victory. Earlier surveys showed that the public doubted Clinton's credibility and gave him higher negative ratings than a front runner usually gets. On Election Day, half of those who rated a candidate's honesty as an important quality voted for Bush. But that group...
...seemed to have become the politics of gender. On the Republican side, there was a platform borrowed from The Handmaid's Tale and Marilyn Quayle to represent the vanishing female option of career wife. Quayle made it clear just how much was at stake when she dragged in the draft and the sexual | revolution. This was all-out culture war, baby boom-style: feminism vs. antifeminism, repression vs. permission, mixing things up vs. shoring up the walls. Armageddon with a female cast...
...defense, though basically untried, continues to hinge on senior stand-out Etienne Belzile, the 1990 second-round draft choice of the Calgary Flames...
...Drafted second in the supplementary draft by the Ottawa Senators this year, Flomenhoft has definitely convinced any disbelievers. And while the senior continues to improve his hockey skills, Flomenhoft will be around all season to handle the physical challenges from bigger teams...