Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Political honeymoons seldom begin as auspiciously as Lynn Martin's. Last week the Senate voted 94 to 0 to confirm the five-term Illinois Congresswoman, who was defeated in a race for the U.S. Senate last November, as George Bush's new Labor Secretary...
Although the alumni-elected governing board must confirm the committee's final choice, it is possible that the candidate could be approved over the phone, or even in a special meeting...
...trains salespeople to handle stress, says Saddam's fluttering eyelids may be a sign of mental breakdown. "When salesmen start blinking, they're usually in trouble," says Molloy. "The guy looks like he's falling apart." While medical researchers are split over the significance of rapid blinking, battlefield commanders confirm that the symptom is common among soldiers who have endured heavy bombardment...
American A-10 attack planes and Cobra and Apache helicopters and infantry weapons appeared to be quite as deadly as advertised against Iraqi armor. General Schwarzkopf would confirm only 24 Iraqi tanks definitely destroyed, but other counts for the border battles as a whole ran as high as 80 vehicles. Correspondents who were allowed into Khafji Thursday afternoon reported that the streets were littered with the burning hulks of Soviet-made armored personnel carriers, knocked out by American TOW missiles fired by Saudi and Qatari infantrymen. U.S. Marines lost three light armored vehicles (LAVs) in the fighting around Umm Hujul...
...pressure is building on Bush to speak more sharply in hopes of making Gorbachev reconsider. For conservatives, recent events only confirm their long-standing doubts about lending support to a leader they consider an attractively tailored Lenin. Says an analyst in Washington: "In effect, we need to stop payment on his Nobel Peace Prize...