Word: stiffs
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Sleaziest Election Campaign When Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina faced a stiff challenge from black Democrat Harvey Gantt, he bashed gays, then feminists, linking Gantt to their causes. Finally, he turned to race baiting, airing a TV spot that depicted white workers' frustration at racial quotas. Helms...
...powerful 1992 campaign issue from the resentment of white voters toward programs that seem to benefit minorities unfairly. The main dealer of that racial card was William Bennett, an articulate critic of affirmative-action schemes and Bush's choice to be the new Republican Party chairman. But after a stiff internal debate, the Administration put that strategy on hold. Then Bennett astonished Washington last week with word that he would not become G.O.P. chief after all, ostensibly because of competing professional commitments. Compounding the confusion, the White House professed surprise when a mid-level Education Department official ruled that most...
...Saddam runs true to type, he may see Bush's diplomatic overture as further proof that the coalition has neither the resolution nor the stamina to stay the course against him. If so, he will stiff James Baker as he has other emissaries -- and war will be inevitable...
...precisely such fears that Judge Wood intends to reinforce with her stiff sentencing of Milken, say experts. "We are dealing here with a theme that resonates very strongly in American society," says Columbia's Coffee. "It is that the abuse of responsibility by those in high places will be dealt with harshly." The government hopes to make the threat of harsh sentences for white-collar felons the pointed lesson of Michael Milken's fall...
Consumers worried about recession and war are shopping for bargains this year. Junk-bond king Michael Milken pulls a stiff ten-year prison term...