Word: america
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...more from their deflated lows of summer. The Japanese government has announced yet another economic-stimulus program, and optimists hope this one might actually be carried out. Meanwhile, a timely international rescue plan for Brazil has eased fears that Asia's ills would spread inexorably to Latin America, then to the U.S., then Europe, back to Asia and on and on in widening global circles. Accordingly, a few U.S. business people are beginning to cast lines into economies that are still largely underwater and fish for bargains on the bottom...
...worse. In trying to show that the Lewinsky affair was no Watergate, the White House exhumed some of the most partisan veterans of the 1974 Judiciary Committee. Wayne Owens, a former Democratic member from Utah, said it was the current committee's fault that "they gave to America, to the seven- and eight-year-olds, the knowledge or raised the question of what oral sex is, what telephone sex is and what you can do with a cigar sexually." And Father Robert Drinan, the ultraliberal former member from Massachusetts, predicted that the committee would "go down in the history books...
...peace may have thought that the serious debate currently before the House of Representatives would distract Americans, weaken our resolve to face them down", he said. "But once more, the United States has proven that although we are never eager to use force, when we must act in America's vital interests we will...
...country in the middle of an ugly battle over his impeachment, President Clinton's missile attacks on Baghdad seemed almost surreal. But to the extent that we can separate the two political crises facing America this morning, it is clear that Clinton made the correct decision on Iraq...
Dartmouth (3-3, 0-0,) is coming off a stellar performance, defeating the University of New Hampshire (2-5, 0-1 America East), 92-79, last Sunday. Dartmouth's total of 92 points was the first 90-plus game since the 1994-95 season...