Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congress into solid gains for themselves. Democrats, hoping Bill Clinton's coattails would hold down losses in the House while boosting their 57-43 Senate majority, came marginally closer to their goal. What is clear is that after years in which Republican Presidents faced off against Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill, legislative gridlock is over; the Democrats are in the driver's seat. But fasten your seat belts: it is not yet clear which way the new majority will...
This increasingly esoteric vocabulary contributes to popular anti-scientific sentiment, whether on Mass. Ave. or on Capitol Hill. While non-scientists may be willing to support federal cancer research grants, they are unlikely to want $3 billion of taxpayer funds to go toward the often controversial Human Genome Project if they are unable to understand why it is significant, let alone what...
...unusual crop of candidates is aiming for Capitol Hill...
...hearings, a spectacle that caused millions of female Americans to look angrily toward Washington -- and dozens of them to head there as part of the powerful movement known as the Year of the Women. Whatever the reason, this is the year of outsider candidates who think they can take Capitol Hill by storm. Many of them may succeed...
...Panther in Chicago to a Wyoming ophthalmologist who promises to return to private life as soon as Congress passes health-care legislation. And many incumbents, who normally trot confidently to re- election, are running scared in the face of this unexpected assault. At least 150 newcomers are expected on Capitol Hill next year. That number includes 85 seats in the House and nine in the Senate that are guaranteed to have new occupants because the incumbents have retired or have been defeated in the primary campaigns...