Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point out that some of that nefarious future has arrived. Denver this summer has been gripped by anxiety over a sudden surge of gang violence. In only one week at the end of July, three people were killed and two wounded in drive-by shootings. A housewife in the Capitol Hill district was fatally shot while washing the supper dishes in her kitchen...
...good use in this week's Essay on the pressures and perils of working there -- he has never lost his fascination for what he calls "the machines and methods of America: mining, cattle ranching, plows, the things that make this country work." As a journalist new to the Capitol, he was once approached in a Senate hallway by Lyndon B. Johnson, then the majority leader: "He stared at me down that long nose of his and said, 'I've never known a reporter without a character flaw. What's yours?' " Sidey did not confess then, but he is willing...
...however, she will bring glamour and credibility to the case for arts funding. Says Jack O'Brien, artistic director for San Diego's Old Globe Theater: "She has a realistic view of what we are up against, she is an eloquent advocate, she is a classy woman -- exactly what Capitol Hill should see." Says Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates, a congressional co-creator of the nea who chairs the subcommittee overseeing it: "She is well known, generally admired for her talents, bright and charming...
...right, NAFTA, designed to dismantle virtually all trade barriers between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, could go into effect as planned on Jan. 1, 1994. But even as Kantor and his colleagues were negotiating, top White House political consultant Paul Begala was on Capitol Hill urging key Democrats to put off consideration of NAFTA until after they begin to debate the Clinton health-care package. That process could take months following the bill's planned introduction in late September. Such a delay could scuttle the trade accord...
While Lisa Foster had accommodated herself to the move to Washington, she became unhappy about it when she saw how the job was hurting her husband. When a friend told her several weeks ago that she had found a job in the Capitol, Lisa Foster said, "You are making the biggest mistake of your life." By then, it seems, Vince Foster had begun to see the move as a mistake as well. Foster had asked an Arkansas physician to send him an antidepressant, which arrived shortly before his death. While the drug may have been a step in the right...