Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current fiscal quarter, easing the need to implement deep budget cuts. "Any time there's a booming economy and increased tax revenues, it allows negotiators to project smaller losses from tax cuts and more money for government programs," TIME's James Carney notes. "The two sides get closer together without having to do anything." What?s more, the two sides reportedly have nailed down about $22 billion in five-year savings from Medicaid cuts. The chief remaining obstacle, reports Carney, is persuading hardline Democrats led by Minority Leader Richard Gephardt to embrace the plan. "Clinton's probably given...
MOSCOW: Madeleine Albright emerged from a 2 1/2 hour meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov little closer to securing Russian approval of NATO expansion. "It's safe to say there was no breakthrough today," reports TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "All Primakov could muster in the way of positive developments was that the two of them agreed to disagree on whether NATO was a threat." The two sides are still at odds over military arrangements once NATO adds Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary this summer. While the West has given assurances that only a small number...
...game that was by all accounts closer than the score would indicate, the Crimson fell to the 10th-ranked Irish...
...Sonnet 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth/I do believe her, though I know she lies") in an intriguing tableau in which the speaker, in deshabille, addressed his sleeping lover. Only Marty R. Thiry '00 (clad in Harvard sweatshirt and jeans) offered a performance closer to simple recitation, with Sonnet 130: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like...
...notes of hope and confidence, Major is so uncertain that his own troops are deserting him. Still, the paper did present the endorsement with an asterisk, chiding Blair for not spelling out what "New Labour" actually stands for other than a more charismatic version of existing government policies. "The closer Mr. Blair has got to power, the less impressive he has appeared," the paper wrote. With one campaign day remaining, Blair seems close to power indeed...