Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed, for hitting up potential donors on the links. The university arranged for her to go to golf school for a week. "I had never had a golf club in my hand," says Shalala, now Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services--and one of the few Cabinet officers with a low enough handicap to play with President Bill Clinton. "Today a lot of people I schmooze with, I schmooze with on a golf course...
...state: an office of the President, a federal parliament, private banks. But they only looked authentic. The presidency resembled the throne of the Czar, upon which the entire welfare of the nation rested. But the erratic Yeltsin is physically and politically out of touch, having lost control of his Cabinet, the parliament and the people. The Duma, supposedly a representative legislature, is hardly that at all. Except for the Communists, Russia has no real political parties, so most of the Deputies vie for power rather than enacting the laws Russia needs. The banks have served all too often...
...lied." He said, "I misled people." Instead of asking forgiveness for betraying his wife and daughter, his staff, his Cabinet and his constituency, he fought back at the independent counsel, Kenneth W. Starr, devoting the second half of the speech to an angry attack, shifting the blame...
...August 17 speech to the nation was gone; in its place, glistening eyes and a cracking voice. "It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow that I feel is genuine -- first and most important my family, also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family." It was the first time the President had offered his former intern an apology since the scandal broke in January. Said TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson: "It's one of the most remarkable speeches ever given by a president...
...aides last week started negotiating with the Duma over a "political agreement" that would alter the Constitution by taking away the President's power to issue decrees on the economy, limiting his ability to dismiss and appoint governments and transferring many of those prerogatives to the parliament and the Cabinet. In other words, these were the terms for Yeltsin's surrender. In return, the parliament would halt impeachment proceedings and pass a law giving the President "social guarantees" when he retires...