Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...G.O.P. candidates stood dutifully beside their President, smiled and hoped for the best. None could accuse Bush of shirking. From May Day to Election Day, he made more than 100 stops for 63 candidates and helped raise about $80 million in campaign funds. The results were unimpressive. Struggling to put the best face on the outcome, a rather sheepish Bush insisted, "I'm told we did a little better than the norm, but that doesn't make me happy...
They not only snubbed Big Green, the most sweeping attack on environmental problems ever put before voters, but they also turned back a flurry of special interest-backed proposals that would have negated Big Green's impact had it passed. In the blur of clashing TV commercials, citizens turned negative, killing everything from a nickel-a-drink surtax on alcoholic beverages to a sales tax to fund antidrug measures...
...most important to fretful financial analysts -- an immediate $300 million improvement in the cash flow of News Corp., which has suffered an advertising slump in all its markets. Says media analyst John Reidy of Smith Barney: "This greatly reduces the pressure on Murdoch to scrounge around and put up some properties for sale." Murdoch sounded a touch regretful: "With Sky and BSB, it was like two boxers tiring and declaring a draw. If times had been different, they might have gone another round...
...announced layoffs of 650 workers. Near Beasley, Texas, Jack Wendt, who farms 1,500 acres of rice and grain, calculates that he will earn $72,000 less than in 1989 because of the sudden disappearance of the U.S. rice industry's best customer, Iraq. In Paris, Airbus Industrie has put on hold a deal to sell five A310 wide-body jets to Iraqi Airways at about $70 million a plane...
...drugs and crime or protecting the environment. "Last time we were ready to pay, and we got taxed for it," says Sunny Merik, an editor in Santa Clara, Calif., who in the past supported measures that underwrote highway improvements and other public works. "But then the people in Washington put some ((fuel)) taxes on top of that, and then gas prices went up because of the Middle East. People would be crazy to tax themselves on top of all that. I have one friend who said he voted against everything that cost money...