Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wright said yesterday a "clear majority" of the House privately supported his plan for dodging a pre-deadline vote and then voting a partial rollback of the raise along with a ban on honoraria...
They said we would not have done so had we been women; they also said that the effect of what we were doing was not unlike the rape itself. It was clear by the end that the manner in which we had been discussing the incident had been insensitive and offensive, which is to say that it sounded exactly the way women assume men will sound if they are sexist...
...Patton, Boggs & Blow with a salary comfortably in the six-figure range. "He has a deft touch on Capitol Hill, just like he has on a basketball court," says former Army Secretary Clifford Alexander, a Washington lawyer who plays ball with Brown on Saturday mornings. "He makes his opinions clear in a way that seems logical and fair, and he never boxes people into a corner. His approach is designed to get the job done...
...eight years into the epidemic, it is increasingly clear that much of the panic and scaremongering was not justified. AIDS is not the black death, and never will be. Unlike the plague or the common cold, AIDS is not easily spread. The virus is transmitted only through blood and sexual intercourse. No one has been found to get the virus from saliva, tears or toilet seats. As a result of education about AIDS and changes in sex habits, the rate of new infections has sharply dropped in some gay communities. And while the virus can sometimes be transmitted in heterosexual...
...part of its 6.8 million inhabitants, and targeted everything from fast-food establishments to dog owners as contributors to the squalor. It went on to suggest 120 ways for London to clean up its act. Among them: bigger litter bins, special cleanup crews to swoop in and clear out debris, and rebates on civic garbage-collection fees in exchange for cleaner sidewalks...