Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which is exactly what Le Pen wanted, even though he campaigned fiercely against both the left and the center-right. Forcing Chirac to share power with Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, he argued, would deprive the President of a "blank check to dissolve the French nation into the Europe of Maastricht," referring to the treaty decreeing that the European Union will have a single currency and thus much closer economic and political integration in 1999. Moreover, Le Pen believed the Socialist victory would provoke a political crisis in which voters would turn to his anti-Europe, France-first movement...
...John Kasich chimed in: "Do I believe there is some serious movement against Newt Gingrich? The answer is no." Despite the temporary calm, cracks in the GOP were widening. While meeting with reporters, Majority Leader Dick Armey sidestepped many opportunities to express his support for the Speaker. Asked point-blank, "Do you think the Speaker is doing an effective job?" Armey walked away, saying, "You all have a good day." For his own part, Gingrich blamed reporters for his problems, accusing them of exaggerating a non-issue. "I was Speaker when we went into this meeting, and I came...
...witnesses have testified, that the jurors will feel any more indulgent toward McVeigh or that they will know him any better. He remains a mysterious figure. When he enters the courtroom, he continues to look relaxed and even jocular, until the jury comes in, and then his face goes blank. His only real confidant appears to be Jones. He had a birthday on April 23, when he turned 29; his lawyers gave him two flannel shirts and a box of Peppermint Patties. He spends most of his time in jail reading the piles of mail he receives. He also reads...
McVeigh is a slender reed on which to hang so much human grief and loathing. His opacity--the blank look punctuated by occasional bursts of defense-table bonhomie--is especially revolting to those who sense that he fancies himself a prisoner of war on trial for collateral damage that he sees as the inevitable consequence of combat. That makes people want to see him dead, but it may be the best reason not to execute him--to deny him his bid for martyrdom, to keep him earthbound and watch him slowly wither, not a hero to his cause but just...
...Some people get testaphobia," she says. "I passed my math classes with flying colors, but I get to that TAAS test and my mind's like blank. I have no idea why." She'll try once more in July, but if she fails, all her plans will have come to nothing...