Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest scandal has sent morale at the agency to rock bottom. Disgusted with incompetence by higher-ups, many younger spies are resigning. Senior hands complain that Deutch pays too much attention to how operations will play on Capitol Hill. Gregarious and backslapping, Deutch can also be a ruthlessly tough manager and highly status conscious. He recently angered seven Senators planning a fact-finding trip to Bosnia by refusing to let them use a plane he had reserved from the Pentagon for a later trip, even though the Pentagon was able to find him an identical substitute. When one of Washington...
Although there aren't exactly Bunsen burners and graduated cylinders roaming the halls of our nation's Capitol, chemical processes help to explain the dynamics of American politics...
...DAYS LAST WEEK, THREE OF Bill Clinton's top national-security advisers trudged up the steps of the U.S. Capitol and tried to explain to Congress why the White House wants to send up to 20,000 American soldiers to Bosnia. The Senators who listened had plenty of questions for the President's emissaries. Some of the queries were pointed, others acerbic, a few downright hostile. One, however, stood out for the succinctness with which it cut to the heart of the matter. It came from Oklahoma Republican Senator James Inhofe, who is known for making crisp and at times...
Hundreds of thousands of black men heeded Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's call to go to Washington and join in the Million Man March. Participants said they had come to the spirited and celebratory rally in front of the Capitol to condemn racism, declare their own personal sense of purpose and responsibility, and pledge to their families and communities their best efforts to build a more equitable and violence-free society. Among those who spoke at the rally: poet Maya Angelou and civil rights activists Jesse Jackson, Joseph Lowery and Rosa Parks. Delivering a two-hour, meandering address...
House Majority Leader Dick Armey told a Capitol news conference today that when the House votes on lobbying reform in the next few weeks, the Senate-passed rules might be weakened to allow lawmakers to go on charity golf, tennis and ski trips. "This is a much-loved perk, and Armey may be floating this idea to see what the response would be," comments TIME's Jeff Birnbaum. In addition to banning charity trips, the Senate bill forbids accepting gifts worth more than $50 and more than $100 worth of gifts from any single source in one year. Armey said...