Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summit was on the edge of disaster. On Wednesday morning Arafat phoned Christopher and threatened to leave Washington. "We were nowhere," says an Administration official. "In fact, we were worse off than when they arrived." Christopher summoned senior Israeli and Palestinian ministers and negotiators to his office in Foggy Bottom. "We've just got to create something," he told them. After three hours, they stitched together the agreement that Clinton announced at his news conference that afternoon: a renunciation of violence and an agreement to open-ended negotiations on easing the Israeli presence in Hebron...
...play by the rules" and not "threaten its neighbors." We should "prioritize our interests and communicate our priorities to the Chinese leadership." The U.S. should never ignore Chinese misbehavior, says Dole, but like Clinton, he views the idea of denying Beijing most-favored-nation trading status as counterproductive. At bottom, Dole's China policy is Clinton's: stay calm, hope for the best and pray that China's succession struggle goes well...
...nine employees at the pharmacy have been replaced. Prescriptions will now be filled by an almost entirely new staff "from top to bottom," including a new director, according to James H. Rowe III '73, vice president for government, community and public affairs...
...then the announcement of the complete genetic identification of an organism that lives at the bottom of the sea in the extreme heat and pressure of a volcanic vent. The headline was that this class of microbe, Archea, represents a completely new branch of life. But classification is not the stuff of passion. The real excitement here is the implication for extraterrestrial life...
...Christmas coming early in 1996, or is this a cruel, costly hoax? President Clinton is traveling the campaign trail [Nation, Sept. 16] at taxpayer expense, carrying a bag full of tax-dollar promises with a hole in the bottom while making believe he's the Democratic Santa Claus. Bob Dole is wearing a Republican Santa suit and hauling around a similar bag of promises. But neither of these impostors can deliver his presents without a working majority of his elves in control of Congress after the Nov. 5 election. It's time the electorate faced up to the fact that...