Word: teflon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer was serious as well, however. Nowinski consulted from 8-5 then went to the gym until 9 or 10 p.m. before "we'd all squeeze in the kitchen and fight for the one Teflon pan." Kacyvenski, who is a rare combination of pre-med, pre-NFL, worked in a lab at Tufts Medical School...
Until recently, George W. Bush seemed like a Teflon candidate. Dirt ? such as accusations of youthful cocaine use ? refused to stick to him as he glided through the early stages of the Republican presidential nomination process. He even seemed to have a good shot at winning New York, a Democratic stronghold, and two weeks ago, in a tour of the state's minority neighborhoods, Bush was introduced at speaking engagements by Floyd Flake, a leading black Democrat. Bush also received a big boost earlier this month when New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Governor George Pataki, two Republicans with...
...from people who have their tongues split to some Star Trek fanatics who have supposedly tried to look like a Klingon. Then there's Erik Sprague, 27, of Albany, N.Y., who has spent the past several years trying to turn himself into a lizard. So far he has had Teflon implants to enlarge his forehead and filed his teeth into fangs, while covering his body with tattoos of reptilian scales...
...again! How many Compassionately Conservative Republicans with no foreign-policy experience can we afford to have as President? Remember Ronald Reagan's jelly beans and cue cards? Now we have a telegenic, Teflon-coated, lightweight candidate who is known for having an office almost bereft of books. The core of Campaign 2000 is the candidacy of Bill Bradley. JOAN BAUER Pittsburgh...
Ronald Reagan may have been the Teflon president, but Bill Clinton could outshine him yet as the lucky president. Never mind Clinton?s successful navigation of impeachment and the Kosovo air war -- this president came out of the White House on Monday to announce good news about what counts most for most Americans: money. Because the economy is going so well, he said, the federal government expects to rake in even more cash than the government?s prior best estimates -- a budget surplus $1 trillion bigger over the next 15 years than previously thought...