Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sensitive about unfinished business, Clinton last week began moving his rhetorical chips behind a new commission created by the deal to recommend long-overdue changes in the Medicare system--the Washington equivalent of hitting the snooze bar. The commission, by law, must report its recommendations to Congress in two years, safely after the midterm elections but just around the time both parties start staging for the 2000 campaign. Which is why hardly anyone thinks either party will take the entitlement challenge any more seriously then than it does now. By Friday, White House aides let it be known that...
There are no bad places to stump. So 1998 Republican Alabama Governor hopeful and Houston Rocket forward Charles Barkley, on trial last week for punching a guy in a bar (he won the case), used his time on the stand for gubernatorial trash talk. Among Sir Charles' policy statements...
...Marines now trumpet matrimony. Four years ago, General Carl Mundy, Krulak's predecessor, was denounced for trying to bar married Marine recruits. But earlier this year, the corps heralded the wedding of a young Marine couple that left for boot camp at Parris Island shortly after they exchanged vows. "We'd see each other when our formations passed each other," recalls Private Sarah Wallace of Sioux City, Iowa, the uniformed bride...
...Spaghetti Club--a bar and dance club--will close by next March. Winthrop Square will instead house 12 luxury condominiums and upscale retailers, scheduled to open...
...vacationing with her husband Paul Beck, a former Versace model, and the couple's two children, Allegra and Daniel. The designer hired a driver to show him around the area, and he wound up in the then not yet trendy section of South Beach. "I sat in a bar and started to look around at the people," he later told TIME. "I said to my friend, 'Why do we have to go to Cuba? It's fun here.' It was love at first sight...