Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fear. The rare combination of an administration and both houses of Congress controlled by the same party means that the President can be held accountable for a change. But it also means that Clinton must prevent his seductive rhetoric about "infrastructure investments" from being translated by Congress into pork-barrel programs...
...actually widen gaps between the rich and poor. It contends that better-educated parents tend to take advantage of the system more readily than those less informed, by transferring their children to schools with more resources. This has left some worried that school choice will create "bottom-of-the-barrel schools...
...Perot's army is perhaps not as unusual as his behavior this election year. Perot flirted with formally entering the race for months, appearing on television talk shows spinning cracker barrel wisdom about "our nation," "our children," "our problems." He abruptly left the race on the day Bill Clinton accepted his party's nomination, leaving many to think Perot tacitly endorsed what he then called "the revitalized Democratic Party...
...Democrats too have been using the military pork barrel as a grab bag of gifts. Bill Clinton, for instance, backs more Seawolfs for Connecticut. And of course nothing turns a liberal Congressman into a hawk faster than the threat of a base closing on his home turf...
...clutched our flashlights for comfort and turned on a battery operated radio to listen to the simulcast of the television news. We listened to the winds that sounded like a freight train approaching--as ceramic barrel tiles blew off the roof, trees cracked and crashed and debris flew everywhere...