Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earlier immunity deal--and got nowhere. Ginsburg wants a full immunity blanket to protect his client from prosecution. Starr is playing very tough: far from being squeamish about prosecuting a 24-year-old, he may have to go to a criminal trial to get her to come clean...
...other kind of sexual harassment, which is more difficult to prove, is quid pro quo harassment. "Quid pro quo" is Latin for "Sleep with me or clean out your desk." Jones isn't saying that Clinton threatened to fire her if she didn't "kiss it," but her lawyers are expected to argue that the atmosphere in the state office where she worked turned chilly after she said no. Clintonites chuckle over an example she offered in her deposition--that she didn't get Secretary's Day flowers...
Candeloria Llanas and Ignacio Alejo--two California strawberry workers on the panel--said in their experience, workers have no health insurance, clean water or adequate bathroom facilities. They said workers are paid an average of $5.75 an hour, and wages are fixed...
...short, in the '70s America down-sized its expectations. Out with Pax Americana. In with the Vietnam Syndrome. Out with the Cadillac. In with the Toyota. But first, out with the President, via Watergate: nearly two years spent sifting through the rubble of Richard Nixon. Whatever hopes of a clean start were raised by Gerald Ford collapsed under the Nixon pardon and an economic crisis as impervious to Ford's WHIP INFLATION NOW buttons as it had been to Nixon's wage-and-price controls...
...recent weeks, political support for the bombing slipped sharply in the U.S. and in the Middle East, where there were few offers of bases and logistical backup for the Americans. Even at the Pentagon, bombing was losing its appeal as a nice, clean solution, since no one believed that the battle plan was sufficient to depose Saddam or destroy his hidden chemical and biological weapons. Washington faced the reality that Annan would have to try to work out something with Saddam. But Clinton wanted Annan to go to Baghdad hard-wired to broker only the kind of deal the President...