Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raison d'etre. The plant's 1990 closing sapped the town's strength, so another politician might use the moment to rail against Corporations That Turn Their Backs on Our Communities. Bradley looks for poetry instead. The missing landmark "tells me life has unknown terms and change is all around us," he says, "and some things are not retrievable. They become memories...
...this time around, both sides have promised not to touch the Social Security surplus, which will run about $147 billion next year. Republican leaders don't want to take the blame for scooping out an extra $14 billion just to keep the government running--especially after conservatives got so angry with them when they did it in 1998. "This year, if spending means so much to him, the President will have to justify dipping into the Social Security trust fund," says John Czwartacki, spokesman for Senate majority leader Trent Lott...
...that leaves the immediate problem of the spending bills. Republicans who were around in 1995 are still spooked by Clinton's ability to put the blame on Congress if the government shuts down. So they are finding even more creative ways to slip programs over, under or around the caps. The census, which under the Constitution has occurred every 10 years since 1790, has been classified for 2000 as an emergency, along with at least $25 billion in other programs, because the 1997 caps exempted emergency spending. That exemption was supposed to cover things like floods and hurricanes, but floods...
...stated that the number of ministries would be cut from 27 to 15. "What we are trying to do is important and dramatic, and if it works, it will be a real victory," Leakey, 54, told TIME. "It would be very nice to prove that you can turn things around without a bloody revolution...
...backfired. When the U.N. gave the order to evacuate the compound on Wednesday, no one was willing to leave. Around us refugees became aware that we might be going. There was no question of taking them with us. "You are abandoning us again," one East Timorese friend said to me, as he hugged his family and cried. The anger and frustration became extreme. As journalists we decided that we wouldn't leave. "If we stay here, they will kill us, but if we leave, they will kill the refugees," said one of my colleagues. Among U.N. staff who had been...