Word: certain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revelation made a very smart woman appear to have been very stupid about her own husband, her friends make a case that this was nothing new. They say Hillary has always been a bit dense about herself and those close to her in a way typical of a certain kind of overachiever: a woman who can talk about school vouchers, Medicare Part B and the Third Way of post-cold war politics but who didn't see the psychological implications of taking her family along on her honeymoon; who thought it would be a good idea to toughen...
...White House meeting with his national security team. Then he kept an already scheduled meeting with Representative Amo Houghton, a New York Republican who opposed impeachment. But their talk focused now on the Senate and whether victory there, for so long a certainty, was really all that certain. Houghton presented Clinton with what he hoped might be the model for a tough Senate resolution of censure. It included a half-million-dollar payment to the U.S. Treasury, cancellation of this year's State of the Union address and provisions barring Clinton in the future from raising funds for the Democratic...
...Republicans. That large a defection seemed highly unlikely. But impeachment is a world where sure things dematerialize from one day to the next. As a senior Democratic Senate staff member put it, "We were watching all of these moderate [House] Republicans defect Tuesday, and we thought, 'O.K., nothing is certain...
...craw sticks the story of the sinking of the four-masted schooner Fantome, which went down in the Caribbean after a losing battle of wits with Hurricane Mitch. Captain and crew were certain they had outsmarted the hurricane by hanging back, but Mitch decided to stall, and down went the Fantome in 180-m.p.h. winds and 50-ft. waves--31 people lost...
...enemies, but his daring, concluding rescue of an imperiled child--this time the setting is an exploding amusement park, not a flaming orphanage--effectively stirs both suspense and sentiment. This Christmas you could do worse than introduce the kids to the big Furby, one who carries a certain moral weight very lightly...