Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...likely to lose for failing to shake their reputations as ineffective legislators. As a result, Republican strategists are predicting the party will increase its numbers from 55 to 60--and possibly more, if G.O.P. challengers can eke out wins in close races in Wisconsin, Nevada, Washington and South Carolina, and if Republican incumbents can hold on in New York and North Carolina. A G.O.P. bump to 60 seats would be historic--the most Republican Senators since 1906--but short of a death blow to Clinton. It takes 67 votes to approve impeachment...
...orchestrated anti-fur movement, all of which drove home the message that fur was a distasteful and excessive luxury. But as with most things in fashion, the trend faded. In 1985, 45 designers were using fur. This year that figure is closer to 200. Giorgio Armani, Badgley Mischka and Carolina Herrera showed fur in their fall '98 collections either for the first time or after a long break, and fashion's current chief recipient of slavish admiration, John Galliano, did a whole fur line. (Oddly though, he outfitted his models to look like prostitutes.) In the early '90s when fashion...
CALLING GRACE METALIOUS Howard Baker asked the question at the heart of Watergate--"What did the President know, and when did he know it?"--and the question at the heart of Monicagate was posed by South Carolina Congressman Lindsey Graham, who last week wondered, "Is this Watergate or Peyton Place?" Let's look at some characteristics of Monicagate and see whether they are present in these other dramas...
...moment is approaching. Already, Governor David Beasley of South Carolina, faced with allegations that he had an affair with his former press secretary, has felt the need to deny all at a press conference that featured not only the Governor and his wife but also the press secretary and her husband--the sort of gathering that could become the 1998 campaign's version of double dating...
According to Danna Smith, executive director of the Dogwood Alliance, a North Carolina-based forest advocacy group, Southern forests are already beginning to show the strains of increased logging...