Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approval ratings to a record low for a first-term President. He is delegating responsibility to a new troika of top aides. He is more disciplined with his words in public. He is spending less time in meetings with advisers and more time mending fences with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. While no one believes the White House is working perfectly yet -- the President remains hopelessly behind his daily schedule -- Clinton's confidence is returning. "The President," said White House chief of staff Mack McLarty, "is in a more natural gait...
Remember TV's animation boom? A couple of years back, snowed by the success of The Simpsons, the networks stormed the animation houses for other prime- time cartoons. Most of the promised shows never materialized (The Pink Panther) or came and went in a Road Runner minute (Capitol Critters, Fish Police). None, however, carried higher expectations than Family Dog, based on an episode that Tim Burton (Batman) directed for Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories series. So excited was CBS that it devoted much of its valuable commercial time during the 1991 Grammy Awards to promoting the show, which was scheduled...
...prime mover on economic strategy than had been expected. For example, the stress on tax increases over spending reductions in the Administration's deficit-cutting program reflects Clinton's preferences far more than Bentsen's. So far, too, the compromises pushing that program through Congress have been concocted by Capitol Hill powers -- currently Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who succeeded Bentsen as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee -- dealing directly with Clinton...
...doubts center mainly on money. Deficit hawks on Capitol Hill say the program is too generous and costly, while some students and university officials argue for a more extravagant plan that would have offered a greater incentive for students to take time off for service...
When Bob Dole jokes with Jay Leno about his disputes with the president, this sends a disturbing message about the nature of Washington. Legitimate political debate is relegated to the realm of humor. Dole can, with an odd sort of detachment, declare that all the fierce debate of Capitol Hill is really just a show, and that after hours he is really a friend of his political enemies. If it is a show, why should the American people take it seriously once the actors reveal it as an illusion? Will the voting public simply forget about the issues underlying political...