Word: swipes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guest meal option, which was announced in a mailing this week, allows students to swipe their student ID cards to pay for their guests' meals. Meal prices are currently $5 for breakfast, $7 for lunch and $9 for dinner...
...COMMONSENSE OUTRAGE: To swipe at oppressive government regulations, Gingrich produced a first-aid heart pump. "What I want the American people to understand," he said, is that this pump that was "invented in Denmark increases by 54% the number of people with CPR who get to the hospital with a chance to recover. The Food and Drug Administration makes illegal ((a product)) that minimizes brain damage, increases the speed of recovery and saves money." Using this pump is just "common sense," Gingrich insisted, implying that the FDA's intransigence costs lives...
...Union, Harvard took samples and did cultures on 35 different food. Officials also took, according to Berry, "swipe tests... on everything imaginable," including dishes, utensils and counters...
...such as Cuba's conspicuous absence. "We hope that the next time we have one of these summits, and the people of all the Western Hemisphere send their leaders here, a leader of a democratic Cuba will take its place at the table of nations," Clinton said in a swipe at Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the only Latin head of state who wasn't invited...
...table, including farm programs," a stance that provokes laughter from his colleagues. "Come on," says one of Daschle's supporters. "Tom's tried to protect crops no one's ever heard of. He's from South Dakota. He represents acreage, not people. When the time comes to swipe at farm subsidies, Tom won't do it. He thinks he couldn't survive at home if he did, and he's probably right...