Word: chunk
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...problem for him. The Ottawa exchange highlighted Clinton's re-election quandary: his first opponent is not a Republican, not even an upstart Demo-crat; it is the perception of his own irrelevance. Though Clinton's job-approval ratings have hovered near respectability in recent months, a large chunk of the electorate doesn't think he can win in 1996; almost half, in one poll, believes the country would be better off if he didn...
Saturday, Martins felt woozy and had to miss a good chunk of the first period and the entire second, and the Crimson yielded the first five goals of the game to the Dutchmen...
...posture as supplicants, its members arrived as conquerors. Both Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton paid them court. Their favorite piece of legislation, a restriction of the Federal Government's power to impose rules and make the states pay for them (otherwise known as unfunded mandates), became the first major chunk of the Gingrichian program to pass both houses of Congress. Clinton, for his part, announced that he was reducing 271 mostly unilateral federal programs to 27 ``performance partnerships'' with the Governors. Of Clinton's proposal, Engler said it was a good start. He knew Congress would outdo that...
...will introduce another starter network with four hours of programming on Mondays and Tuesdays. Both UPN and WB hope to expand to seven nights in the next several years, just as the Fox network has done after a similar start-up in 1986, and thus to bite off another chunk of the increasingly fragmented audience...
Some U.S. analysts claim they have purchased at least as big a chunk of the government. Recently retired Bogota DEA chief Joe Toft says narcodollars have influenced "from 50% to 75% of the Colombian Congress." The traffickers have also bought an unknown number of prosecutors, policemen and soldiers. But "their most significant victory," claims a U.S. diplomat, was the surrender program for retiring dons. "The Cali cartel dictated the penal-code reform," he says. Under the 1993 code revisions, drug traffickers who turn themselves in can have their sentences reduced by as much as two-thirds at the discretion...