Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Business Roundtable. To get his plan through Congress, he told the corporate chieftains, he had to "raise your taxes more and cut spending less than I wanted to, which made a lot of you furious." He got away with it that time, taking credit for pushing through a brave budget without taking the blame for the very ingredients that made it brave in the first place. But sooner or later, he was bound to be cited for a moving violation. "We missed it," admitted a senior White House official, after Clinton went even further in Houston. "We should have caught...
...will be far-sighted, and set themselves and the council on a course which will radically alter the meaning and the power of the council in the long run. They may not reap the glory today, but sometime in the future new generations will look upon them as the brave men and women who put an end to the bombast and just got down to business...
...Today, I come to you with a heart filled with love and peace now that the olive branch has adorned the peace of the brave." --Tonight's ARCO Forum Speaker Yasser Arafat, addressing a special session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday...
...powerful flow of really good ideas? Doesn't help; we don't know where even moderately good ideas come from. Robert Harris, whose chilling novel Fatherland imagined what Europe might have been like had World War II stalled out in an English defeat and a U.S. withdrawal, makes a brave try at construing genius, the light bulb over the unicorn's head, in his new novel, Enigma (Random House; 320 pages; $23). The results are worthy and believable, if not luminous...
...military folk, who seem over the ages to have had little more to do than embroider their vocabulary with ever newer inventions. Ask any soldier to count the entries, and he will say there are three hundred and sixty-f---ing-five of them. Were it not for our brave fighting men, this book would be a booklet...