Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just as the Cold War ended, so too did the Publication War: burdened by crippling financial planning and ruthless party chairmen, the Crimson crumbled and has been content to print articles about security guards which no one understands. And, just as every Third World nation is trying to build an atomic bomb out of Sterno and radon testers, so too is there a proliferation of pranking on campus. These events are not unrelated...
...just a middle-aged Democrat, rather than clearly old or new. Such artful ambivalence is often necessary in Washington, but Clinton's was on display all the time, and he gave both factions license to carp at him as inconsistent. In addition, he gave insufficient deference to committee chairmen like Sam Nunn and Pat Moynihan and paid dearly for the slights: Nunn has nearly shut down Clinton on gays in the military, and Moynihan last week suggested that Clinton's health- care financing scheme was spun from whole cloth...
...told him flatly that no bombing of Serb positions would be considered unless the Bosnian government had returned to good-faith negotiations. "We're making it very, very clear to him," said a senior official. "The cavalry is not coming to take back his country for him." The co-chairmen of the negotiations, Thorvald Stoltenberg representing the U.N. and Lord Owen for the European Community, say they are committed to allocating 30% of Bosnia and Herzegovina's territory to Muslims, even though they hold only about 10% now. Izetbegovic considers 30% insufficient. "There is no final map yet," said Owen...
...other issues, a handful of Senators now holds the keys to success or failure for Clinton in his first year in office. This pride of new Senate lions differs substantially from the Lyndon Johnsons and Everett Dirksens of the past. With one exception, the new breed are committee chairmen rather than members of the formal leadership (which was all but reformed out of business a couple of decades ago). In cutting deals, the modern lions rely as much on suasion as brute political force, and when they have to fight dirty, they prefer the stiletto to brass knuckles. They...
DeLong says her co-workers in the biology department were very supportive and concerned with her deteriorating condition. "The chairmen watched someone they cared about fall apart mentally," she says...