Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Speaker's lip flapping had serious consequences. He not only impeded efforts to return federal employees to work, but also put his ego in the way of the 104th Congress's achieving its larger aim of balancing the budget in seven years. Gingrich's behavior reminded his colleagues that the visionary architect of the Contract with America has never had to prove himself under the pressure of adversarial bargaining...
Despite the dark wood, the Annenberg Hall, as the first-year dining hall will be renamed, is as bright as the Commons downstairs. The stained glass windows have been cleaned. And new wagon-wheel shaped chandeliers aim light both at the ceiling and down on the floor...
...have been asking, does the Core fulfill [its aim]? Should the Core fulfill it? Are there also other ways of fulfilling that?" Ditzion said...
...list of appropriations goes on and on: In his announcement speech, Dole identified no fewer than a dozen Buchananesque villains, ranging from the U.N. to affirmative action--both of which Dole had supported in the past. Gramm took aim at half a dozen, including welfare recipients and prisoners. Before he dropped out of the race, California Governor Pete Wilson bet heavily on this year's trifecta of blame: illegal immigrants, affirmative action and repeat criminals (with a call for "three strikes and you're out" legislation). Buchanan, of course, had already put his money on those horses--and others...
...They are concerned about the corporate economy. I'm concerned about the national economy. They are no longer one and the same." These are the moments when Buchanan sounds like an unreconstructed liberal Democrat, defending labor unions and denouncing rapacious Big Business. But he does not extend his aim to the rich, perhaps because he understands what many have missed: most Americans do not want to hate rich people--they want to be them. "I really have no problem with Ted Turner making $2 billion or $3 billion," Buchanan says. "If the real wages of everybody are going up, nobody...