Word: certain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long past time for Clinton to be held accountable for his actions; like the voters, they have strong personal feelings about the President. Unfortunately for Clinton, the feelings on Capitol Hill can be poisonous. In a country where everyone assumes that all politicians lie, politicians themselves regard a certain kind of lying as a special kind of sin. A President who breaks his word makes it impossible to do business when the doors are closed and the hands are played and the hard trading begins. Time and again, Bill Clinton made solemn, cross-his-heart promises, about taxes he would...
Here in the area of Michigan where I live, big artificial support payments for sugar beets are ruining the family farm. The foreign-owned sugar plants give contracts to a certain few corporate farms, paying them enormous sums per acre. Small and midsize family farms are disappearing at an alarming rate as land rents and property taxes skyrocket and the few corporate farms fight over every acre. The megafarms are pushing the fast-disappearing topsoil to the absolute limit. All this while the local sugar plant locked out longtime employees to force wage cuts. Here too we have spent millions...
...indicate these high rates of infection are declining. Beginning early in the new year, we intend to release the name and picture of one person a month convicted of soliciting for sex on the streets of our city. While foreign policy experts are worried about 'no-fly zones' in certain areas, I want to create 'no-open-fly zones' in certain areas of my city...
Watch your water softener if you have kidney disease or hypertension. A recent case study suggests that using potassium-based softeners may lead to a dangerously high buildup of the mineral in the blood in certain high-risk folks...
...comforts attached to entering the world of a Nora Ephron romantic comedy--and these comforts extend beyond the knowledge that, at some point or another, Meg Ryan will appear on screen in a twin set. When Ephron pairs the actress with Tom Hanks, the viewer can rest assured that certain unsettling events will not occur: we know, for example, that our hero won't ever suffer financially (and thus won't turn to a life of bank robbery or kidnapping); our heroine won't be left, at the end of the film, with no one to dance with...