Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear: there are a lot of gooddepartments out there and this is a competitivesituation," says J. Russell Muirhead '88, anassistant professor of government...
...that there is no consensus on what the past year was finally about--sex and lies? sexual witch hunts and hypocrisy?--no one is yet sure what its repercussions will be. Watergate was followed by an era of weakened presidential leadership and moralizing politics. But Watergate was about clear abuses of presidential power, not middle-aged sex play and the attendant embarrassments, and it ended with Richard Nixon in pieces on the ground. By comparison, Bill Clinton is merely scuffed and dented, and his accusers are on the defensive, while most people profess indifference to the whole matter. So everything...
...talking, a man and a woman appear and stop to talk shop loudly no more than 3 ft. from where we are sitting. Though it has to be clear that McDonough and I are in quiet conversation, they bray at each other for several minutes as if we do not exist. To me their behavior is simply a moment of normal human rudeness, though it is a little jarring in a building that is supposed to foster collegial bliss. I suggest to McDonough that civility is something that cannot be designed, and he starts to agree. Then he stops, grows...
...Council by Governor Jerry Brown, suddenly found herself without a job when his successor, George Deukmejian, pulled the plug on the agency. So she set up a nonprofit organization called the Local Government Commission to help educate officials on ways to deal with social and environmental problems. "It was clear to me that without mayors and city council managers and supervisors undertaking the lead in making things change, Village Homes could never be duplicated," she says...
...mission to change the habits of his fellow New Yorkers in regard to everything from graffiti to jaywalking, is betting that the courts will uphold his new tactic, as the Supreme Court has done in the case of seizure of assets from drug traffickers. But it is not clear yet whether the judiciary will be willing to balance rights in the same way in the case of drunken driving, which is a less serious offense. And make no mistake, the measures are draconian: "Seizing a vehicle can be a real hardship for a spouse who needs to go to work...