Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton's inner circle. It's not fair, it's not right that Clinton should be impeached, one longtime adviser said. It's not fair, it's not right that he should be run out of office by an independent counsel with an unlimited purse and a partisan, moralistic bent. But "what should and what will happen are two different things," said the adviser. Clinton might survive, the adviser says, but the cost to the party and to the issues and interests for which the President stands would be too much to bear. "He can pull it out through force...
...armed with a neatly typed crib sheet of some 14 prospective classes, I felt ready to take my place as part of a frenzied mass bent on shopping as many classes as time--or energy--would allow...
...BRAINIAC An ambitious scientist is bent on world domination, but Superman--who is smart but not too smart--stops...
...RUSSIA The remorseless assassins in From Russia with Love (1963) were bent on burying us. Hurrah for James Bond...
MOSCOW: A high-profile tax raid by Russia on its leading tax defaulter, Gazprom, was calculated to impress the IMF, says TIME correspondent Andrew Meier. But even if it accomplishes that, the international body is unlikely to cut the big check Russia so desperately needs. "The IMF seems bent on playing high-stakes brinkmanship," says Meier, "extorting vows to slash the budget and strip the fat before it will agree to bail Russia out." But Russia's condition is deteriorating rapidly...