Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cloud of a possible independent-counsel probe fell over Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros: the Justice Department indicated it was beginning a preliminary review of Cisneros' payments to a former mistress and the statements he made about the money to federal agents prior to his appointment. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, who is already the target of an independent counsel investigation regarding his travel expenses, let it be known that he has been voluntarily writing personal reimbursement checks to various benefactors in order to clear up any appearance of impropriety...
...young woman sat at my computer and fiddled with my system files while I sat and read voraciously for my classes (right!). Twenty minutes later, she rose from a cloud of dust and electrons to announce that my computer was fixed. The solution? Disconnect my sound card...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Gregory Jaynes, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Gregory Jaynes, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...
...rare victories: the $360-million National Service program. Passed earlier this year, Clinton today swore in the first members of the "Americorps," which aims to get America's youth involved in community service and provides money for college in return. But even this feel-good event had a gray cloud: the White House was supposed to host one of the photo-op ceremonies on the South Lawn, but the event had to be moved because of the plane wreckage strewn on Bill and Hillary's lawn. (See above.) The oath was administered to a total of 20,000 throughout...