Word: breather
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...little harder. Suppose Mr. Bush names a Clarence Thomas type. Can he get him confirmed? With 49 or 50 Democrats, and Republicans like Jim Jeffords and Olympia Snowe and those other moderates? All that'll do is fire up our base. In fact, pray he does name a fire breather. He loses in the Senate, and we get, oh, maybe $20 million or so for the next election...
...sensitive subject dividing the two sides, and they had begun discussing compromises. "Once you put them on the table, you have to go full speed to reach an agreement," says Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East Forum at the Council on Foreign Relations. Instead, the administration took a breather for two months and tried in vain to enlist Arab leaders in pressuring Arafat to compromise. The intermission gave time for Arafat to brood, for the Palestinian streets to come to a boil, and for hard-liners to move...
...Other than the Owl's Club's closure from December to February in order to take a "breather," as Owl President Jonathan Powers '00 described it, and the A.D. Club's recent shutdown for what members described as "renovations," few incidents have attracted attention...
...good thing to have time to take a breather and get on solid footing," Powers said. "It looks a lot better than it did before...
...strengthened his candidacy to be Secretary of State if Gore is elected President. The high-profile debate also put the U.S. back in the driver's seat at the U.N., after a long period of bickering and lackluster performances. By shifting the focus to Africa, Holbrooke is providing a breather from divisive issues such as Kosovo and Iraq and pushing the Security Council to think more creatively about its role. Notes a seasoned U.N. official: "He has simply expanded the definition of what constitutes a security threat." So far, the strategy seems to be working...