Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close ties to the National Rifle Association. On the left are some of Congress's strongest civil rights partisans, including Waters and Texan Sheila Jackson Lee. The committee has had some low-key bipartisan successes in areas such as court reform and defining intellectual-property rights in the cyber age, but they haven't got as much attention as the politically dangerous wedge issues that make up the committee's steady diet...
What is the alternative? Congress watchers hark back to a gentler age, when New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino presided over the Watergate-era House Judiciary Committee and its soberly bipartisan center. Several of that committee's key votes were unanimous, and that was deliberate. There was enough goodwill among members to keep secret the special prosecutor's detailed "road map" to the evidence rather than turn it into political fuel by putting it on the airwaves. In the impeachment debate that followed, a group of moderate Southern Democrats and liberal Republicans--including the future Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, then...
...eloquently and frequently on the sanctity of marriage, does not believe in an "I was experimenting with adultery" type of excuse, when adultery is a mortal sin by his standards, nor in "youthful indiscretions" beyond the "statute of limitations." But Hyde shrugged off accountability. I'm an expert on age 41, when his five-year affair began, and it's hardly young. Maturity should have kicked in by that time. Yes, it was a long time ago and Hyde's marriage survived, but the pain he caused in the Snodgrass marriage and to the three children was lasting, with wounds...
...made a lot of sense back in 1991 for the Centers for Disease Control to target its vaccination efforts at children under the age of two. But researchers then found that 75% of new cases of hepatitis B in the U.S. occur in those between the ages of 15 and 39. So last year the CDC advised that all children up to the age of 18 get vaccinated. But remember: the disease can strike at any age. Thus most people will benefit from getting the shots. (One exception: those allergic to yeast, which is used to make the vaccine...
According to the Federal Election Commission, only 49 percent of the voting age population (VAP) voted in the 1996 presidential election, a full 5 percent decrease from the previous presidential election...