Word: storming
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...asides and endless litigation by vetoing the Civil Rights Act of 1990. He must then outline a coherent plan to empower the nation's disadvantaged through education vouchers, tenant management of public housing, tougher law enforcement, child care and other initiatives. Initially, no doubt, he will face a storm of protest from entrenched civil rights groups, but in the long run Bush may well be remembered as the Empowerment President...
...current jam in the Persian Gulf. As long as we maintain our gluttonous consumption of energy, we can never wean ourselves from dependence on Gulf oil or reduce our vulnerability to capricious despots like Saddam Hussein. The time has come to fix the roof--before the big storm hits...
...studies and proposals, the one by a couple of New Jersey intellectuals has raised the greatest storm out on the plains. Frank Popper, head of Rutgers University's urban-studies department, is a land planner who has poked his way down the neglected and withering trails of the plains for 20 years, wondering if a new frontier is struggling to be born. His wife Debora is a graduate student in geography. They swept up the entire region, from Texas to Montana, in their analysis. Their language was apocalyptic ("largest, longest-running agricultural and environmental miscalculation in the nation's history...
...sure, the text has been nudged into modernity in the new translation and adaptation by Adrian Mitchell. His version took London by storm last season, winning an Olivier Award, and makes its U.S. debut at California's Berkeley Repertory Theater. The language is vernacular, sometimes vulgar, and even titled characters are stripped of grandeur and persiflage. The multiracial casting reflects contemporary America more than feudal Spain. Stylistically, the 20th century influence of Bertolt Brecht is evident throughout in the Marxist class analysis, didactic political sloganeering and use of song and dance to preach...
...commander of all U.S. forces in the gulf, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, firmly denies he has "any disagreement whatsoever with any agreement" between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. "Storm-in' Norman," as some of his detractors call him, dismisses published reports that he complained to the Pentagon about a Saudi request for veto power over future American action. He adds, "I participated in the formulation of the agreement...