Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton held a Rose Garden ceremony Tuesday to announce the good news: The nation's budget surplus is expected to hit a whopping $39 billion this year. "America can now turn off the deficit clock and turn on the surplus clock," he said, adding: "This is, of course, very good news for the American people...
Everyone else gloomily girds for a new arms race. "Other countries will see this as an open invitation to try to acquire the technology," warns Defense Secretary William Cohen. Clinton is especially hurt at the nuclear breakout: a cherished presidential legacy, significantly turning back the nuclear clock, will not be handed on. He'd devoted considerable energy to corralling Russia's strategic weaponry, denuclearizing the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakstan, and containing North Korea's atomic program...
...left before the press conference at which Attorney General Janet Reno and her antitrust chief Joel Klein were to announce one of the largest and most important antitrust cases in American history, Gates demonstrated the cold-blooded brinkmanship for which he is famous: with no time left on the clock, he suddenly made nice. O.K., he told Klein: Let's talk...
...plant myself just next to Widener at about two o'clock. It's an incredible day--warm, clear and arid--and the place is hopping with people. There are frisbee-throwers, half-naked loungers and scores of tourists...
...only features are regularly edited by these beat editors. For daily stories, Chang says, "we have to work under extremely tight deadlines, and we just don't have the luxury of a publication with a longer production cycle." For example, if a speech event takes place at eight o'clock and the paper has to go to press in a matter of hours, then there is often no time to check all the facts the speaker might have thrown out. As for quotations, the current policy is to try and confirm quotes by reading them back to the speaker...