Word: air
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group quickly agreed that air strikes were the right option. But Clinton decided he would wait to see Butler's actual report before giving the go order. Before the call ended, there was a second discussion, this time about what Berger carefully described as "any other factors that should lead us to do anything differently." What he meant was the certainty of a political storm in Washington about the timing of the attacks. Despite the President's notorious ability to compartmentalize, holding one set of problems separate in his mind from another, there were no compartments so airtight that they...
...that time, however, the air strikes were under way. In his televised address to the nation Wednesday night, during which the bags under his eyes hung like snow melting down rooftops, the President argued that a delay of even a couple of days would have given Saddam time to prepare for the attack by dispersing his forces and hiding his weapons. As expected, Republicans were suspicious that the entire campaign was an attempt by Clinton to postpone the impeachment vote and buy time to find some way out, perhaps even by dragging the process into the next Congress, where there...
...cacophony lasted nearly a minute, maybe more. And when it was over, Livingston, who stood bracing his tall, lean frame over the lectern, lifted his head up and delivered the sentences that sucked the air out of the House chamber. "I can only challenge you in such fashion that I am willing to heed my own words," he said, still addressing Clinton. At that there was an audible, collective gasp. At least one Republican lawmaker softly spoke the plea...
...that momentary prospect of reconciliation evaporated. When the vote to impeach the President on the first article of impeachment passed the 218 mark, there was a moment of quickly stifled applause in the chamber. Mostly there was nothing--no acknowledgment of what had just happened, no electricity in the air. A short time later, a House Republican who had just voted against the President pulled a reporter aside. "He had it coming," the lawmaker said of Clinton. "He got what he deserved...
...caught my ear was that this ratings king and cash cow for Infinity Broadcasting was speaking of plans to retire. It was just days before Infinity sold 140 million shares to the public for $3 billion, and raises interesting questions for stockholders--not least: How much is an on-air star like Stern worth? It also raises disclosure issues...