Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite relieved, almost happy actually, because always when I accomplish something or make an important decision, spurring others to act rather than reacting only to what is happening around me, it gives me a feeling of inner freedom and self-confirmation. And everyone needs such self- confirmation. It is one of the paradoxes of my life that I am experiencing such a creative feeling at the moment of my resignation...
...accomplish this, Clinton had to rely on regressive sales taxes rather than expend further energy trying to work an income tax through the constitutional baffles. He had to cut corners and improvise in ways that less hamstrung governments avoid. "Clinton is criticized for using corporate jets to get around the state, but every politician does that here," says Diane Blair. "Otherwise you don't go anywhere. I have seen Hillary fly through black storms to get to a high school graduation where they are waiting for her. She would never make it if some firm in the town...
...doubly aghast that the new manager went along with it. After that, I wouldn't touch anything he got close to." Hard feelings aside, Campbell plans to vote for Perot in November. "I still don't like him," he says, "but I've never seen anybody who could accomplish as much as this son-of-a-gun could...
...elicits new facts from participants. Howard Hunt says a goal was to uncover illegal foreign funds going to the Democrats. Wallace reveals a memo from Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan urging use of "a sharp stick" to destroy Democrat Edmund Muskie, and Donald Segretti describes the "dirty tricks" used to accomplish that goal. Bob Woodward adds a few tiny details about "Deep Throat," and the show concludes with the parlor game of guessing just who he might...
...Washington doesn't seem to do anything anymore except collect taxes; but they should understand that the existence of a $400 billion deficit -- created in part to pay for programs that voters themselves demanded even as they opposed new taxes -- severely limits the kinds of things the government can accomplish for the commonweal. Moreover, the size of the deficit means that regardless of who is in power, things can only get worse before they get better...