Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't Congress want to close bases? Because constituents worked at the bases. Why did so many work there? Because industry has become reliant on the military to support its bloated size. How did the military accomplish this bloating? Through Reagan-era oversizing that did not, repeat did not, cause the Cold War to come to an end. After all, how can the MX missile take credit for thirty years of industrial decline in a foreign nation? There's no answer...
...Congress is not behind intervention, partly because no one is sure what might work. "Given the resources you're willing to devote to the problem," says Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, "I think you have to lower your expectations about what you can accomplish." Members of Congress returned to Washington after the Easter recess with no feeling that their constituents were clamoring for the use of armed force. National opinion polls show that only about a quarter to a third of Americans favor military intervention...
...first three months after his Inauguration, Bill Clinton managed to do what the Republicans couldn't accomplish in a full year of campaigning: make George Bush's environmental record almost look respectable. First the new Administration let operations begin at an Ohio hazardous-waste incinerator -- the world's largest -- that both Clinton and Vice President Al Gore had opposed during campaign swings through the state. Then the White House backed away from a plan to help preserve vast stretches of public land in Western states by raising fees and tightening rules for ranchers, miners and loggers who use federal resources...
Though Gore has prevailed for now, the debates within the Administration may be just beginning. As with health-care reform, the President put forward the bold outline of a plan and ordered his staff to figure out how to accomplish it -- in this case, by August. We'll give you the details, he was saying, when we work them...
Great salesman that he is, Clinton can be viewed as a victim of his own success. His insistence on deficit reduction -- and his cajoling of Congress to support a multiyear plan to accomplish it -- is the very definition of courage in modern American politics. "He has stirred into life a debate from which the republic could have greatly benefited had it taken place a decade earlier," says the historian Arthur Schlesinger. "He has broken the taboo that has long banned the tax question from public discussion." Should he then be blamed when Republicans follow his lead and scuttle a pork...