Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House periodically throws up its arms in exasperation but has for the most part declined to go head-to-head with the Republican legislators obstructing the funds. "Clinton has been accused of offering no overarching vision in his foreign policy, instead simply managing crisis after crisis with no clear sense of overall objectives," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. The crises that have dogged his presidency have only deepened the problem. "Impeachment challenged the President?s moral credibility," says Dowell. "And moral credibility was something he badly needed to prevail on the CTBT issue...
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Instead of talking about the troubling prevalence of religion on school grounds in clear defiance of the constitutional separation of church and state, we have been reduced to debating the benefits of bestowing the title of "martyr" upon Littleton victim Cassie Bernall. In fact, the so-called martyrdom of Cassie Bernall is emblematic of the problems with the current debate surrounding religion in the schools...
...actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty," she says...
...issues (and an internationalism on trade issues) that a Buchanan candidacy would instantly erase. Buchanan's followers are rabidly pro-life and anti-foreigner and not disinclined to scan the skies for black helicopters and other imaginary craft. They also turn out at the polls ? Buchanan could expect to clear the 5 percent hurdle the party needs to hang on to its matching funds in 2004. But, and it's a big but, they have the effect of scaring everybody else away. The Reform party?s best long-term hopes, surely, are with a higher-rent crowd than that (think...