Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the beginning of September until the end of May, our lives are a blur of people. Nine months of constant companionship. From morning coffee to a late night shower, the college student is always surrounded. In the airtight bubble of Harvard Square, someone from section is sipping tea at the next table or a friend is in the adjoining fitting room even when you aren't on Harvard property proper. So the summer is for breaking out. Three peaceful months of respite from the tedium of continual human interaction and from an active gossip mill (one that keeps churning...
...while, it looked as though Starr might try a pre-emptive political strike and send Congress an interim report on his findings. But a source close to the investigation ruled that out last week on the grounds that anything less than an airtight case would be dismissed by the public and buried by the lawmakers. Starr's legal options are so circumscribed, he may have no choice but to make his best case to the House sooner or later--which is just what the President's team has wanted all along...
...those in the White House who prefer to delay things -- and that's most of them -- this is fantastic news," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "Starr wanted to present an airtight case to Congress this summer; now he'll have to wait for these decisions at least until fall. And Republicans won't touch the issue anywhere near the elections; whatever case Starr had would be immediately politicized and be robbed of its credibility...
...January. Unless... "This puts the pressure squarely on Monica for now," says Tumulty. "If Starr can cut a deal with her and get her to talk, he has a shot at building a case this summer." The problem with that is that Monica Lewinsky, by herself, does not an airtight case make. It seems much more likely that Starr will wait it out -- and thus our long national nightmare has just gotten quite a bit longer...
...better possibility) are being employed by die-hard shroudies to shore up their hope that their cause is not lost. Faith is ratcheting up the scrutiny on science to unheard-of levels, and the mystified scientists, who considered the case essentially closed, find themselves challenged to make it so airtight that not even a prayer can slip...