Word: beltway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crack down on abusive labor practices in poor countries, according to the Washington Post. So far, the strategy seems to be working: recent polls have indicated that less than 4 percent of Americans rank getting to the bottom of possible campaign finance irregularities as the central issue inside the beltway...
...said it would be unethical to even try. "There is no clinical reason why you would do this. Why would you make another human being? We think it would be ethically unacceptable, and certainly would not want to be involved in the project." Meanwhile, President Clinton provided a typically Beltway response: He asked for a commission to review the implications. Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslyn Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, will publish a report on the sheep cloning Thursday in the journal Nature. Previously, scientists had cloned less complex life forms, like tadpoles, but the tadpoles had never developed...
...also not too late for a summer inside the Capital Beltway, says Geoffrey C. Rapp '98, chair of the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics...
...courts splitting on the decision. A federal judge in Arkansas had ruled the trial must be delayed until Clinton leaves office, but that the evidence discovery process could proceed. That ruling was overturned by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in January 1996. The betting in the Beltway is that the Court will hand down a ruling similar to the federal court's in Arkansas. This would allow discovery to proceed, a potentially embarrassing process in which Clinton would have a hard time keeping secret even if his depositions were taken under seal. In any event, a ruling...
...business of Peter Segal's My Fellow Americans to throw them together, under pressure (the current President--Dan Aykroyd--is trying to implicate them in a scandal), and let them bicker their way out of trouble. This involves the former leaders in an improbable outside-the-Beltway odyssey. But in its course, they get in close touch with the reality behind the social-policy abstractions they're used to--a homeless family, gay-pride marchers, Elvis impersonators--not to mention their own better natures. We in turn get in touch with two wily comic actors, deftly exchanging well-crafted...