Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flying home on Air Force One. While in Israel and the Gaza Strip, where he had become the first U.S. President to set foot on Palestinian-controlled soil, Clinton still hoped that once he got back home there would be time to sit down with House G.O.P. centrists and bid for their support. But the strain was building. At his joint press conference in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his answers were weary and sometimes brisk to the point of anger. And now his aides were telling him that impeachment, which everyone believed was impossible just...
...Clinton reportedly hadn?t even watched the voting, and his message on this gray Saturday evening was determinedly un-Nixon-like. Instead of stepping down, Clinton the great campaigner will spend a long and busy winter on one last bid. He has a slogan -- "Stop the politics of personal destruction" -- and an escape plan: bipartisan censure. To win, he has to remind Americans how much they always wanted him to stay...
With no hope of even a cyclical upturn in the plain-paper business, Union Camp was shunned by the investors that most influence stock prices: the mutual funds. Before the bid by International Paper, Union Camp was one of only 12 among the 66 industrial companies in the S&P 500 that still traded below its 1987 high--after a decade when that index quadrupled...
...first Moses seems only incidentally vexed that his fellow Hebrews have been enslaved to help build the pyramids. But he gradually achieves an ethnic identity and flexes some vengeful muscle, thanks to a divine ally--a force as implacable as Clint Eastwood in a really dark mood--who, when bid, will kill each Egyptian firstborn male...
...Gephardt. Aides to the Missouri Congressman were surprised to see Susman's name on Bradley's website, not only because Susman raised a big chunk of Gephardt's campaign war chest in 1988 but also because he has been touted as an important benefactor in any White House bid. Susman wouldn't explain his change of heart. Gephardt won't decide until January, but the defection suggested that he may not run. As one ally put it, "Dick has a 50-50 chance of getting elected Speaker in 2000. He has about a 50-to-1 chance of being elected...