Word: handed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...lesson was the same: it's fun to be a bomb thrower until the bomb blows up in your face. Texas Republican Clayton Williams squandered his lead over state treasurer Ann Richards with an unending stream of bloopers. He called Richards a liar and refused to shake her hand. His doom was sealed in the closing days of the campaign when he not only revealed that he was ignorant of the only constitutional amendment on the ballot but also admitted that he had paid no income taxes in 1986, even though he is a multimillionaire. Williams' gaffes, along with...
...front runners in Poland's first-ever popular presidential election campaign could hardly be more sharply drawn. The gaunt, intellectual Tadeusz Mazowiecki moves slowly and speaks diffidently on weekends-only campaign swings that are wedged into his prime-ministerial schedule. The paunchy trade unionist Lech Walesa, on the other hand, blitzes the country with almost daily campaign meetings, haranguing opponents and sweet-talking supporters at every stop...
...trying to soften his public image. As Bush barnstormed the country in search of Republican votes, Sununu haunted the so-called buffer zone, the narrow secure area between the podium and the audience, scanning the crowd for a small child. Finding one, he would take the tot by the hand and lead his little hostage off to meet the President, who on at least one occasion tripped over the toddler...
...nightfall, the protesters suddenly switch on headlights and hand-held spotlights to illuminate a narrow stretch of boundary. Tonight's Light Up the Border rally is one in a series of monthly anti-immigrant demonstrations held in a place where millions of Latin Americans and others have crossed the hills and canyons that feed into San Diego...
...controversial Helms ad showed a white hand crumpling a rejection slip. "You needed that job, and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair?" That is, at the very least, a crude description of how affirmative action works. But simple mathematics dictates that every job gained by a black or a woman through such efforts is a job lost by a white or a man. Whether that is "fair" depends on knowing the unknowable: whether, without all past and present discrimination, a black...