Word: cohort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Raines' first budget has produced a fair share of acrimony. For starters Clinton has for the first time committed himself to balance, with numbers credible enough to stand up to scrutiny on Capitol Hill but big enough to accommodate the promises he made during the last campaign. Meanwhile, a cohort of departing Cabinet secretaries, whose relationships with Clinton were more deeply rooted than the new OMB director's, seized their final chance to make demands. Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, for example, facing $1 billion in new low-income-housing cuts, lamented in a memo to Raines that found...
...hand, you want a big enough cohort to create a community for themselves. But you also want to be able to give people sufficient individual attention," Appiah says...
...matter how diligently Mr. Graham works to defend his ill-reputed center, the fact of the matter is that it is a hopeless conspiracy against me, let along their amoral cohort with Rushdie's opponents, and, optimistically speaking, it is only a matter of time before the mighty hand of American justice reaches them...
...counter-revolutionaries? The latest TIME/CNN Election Monitor surveyed Americans who voted in '94 for GOP contenders for Congress. The poll found a cohort of deserters large enough to give Democrats high hopes. The current turncoats tend to be Democrats who strayed and are returning home. They are generally young, pro-choice, worried about the economy, in favor of gun control and fed up with budget cutting and Newt Gingrich...
...Most Harvard Ph.D.s pursue academic employment upon completion of their degrees. Job opportunities in many academic fields are expected to improve in anticipation of the large cohort of faculty members who will retire in the 1990s. We anticipate that students beginning Ph.D. programs in 1995 will enter favorable job markets," the bulletin reads...