Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only witness, the meeting turned out to be more emotional, painful and time- consuming than the staff had anticipated. Guinier urged Clinton to go ahead with her Senate hearings; she believed that Senators would judge her as a whole person, not just by her writings, and would confirm her. But Clinton told her that the hearings would be based largely on the writings, that he would need to support them and could not. He warned her that the weeks leading up to the Senate hearing would be "death by a thousand cuts." Later he added, "That would not be good...
...recent activities of the Undergraduate Council may confirm this. In recent years, ideologues like Randal S. Jeffrey '91 have lost races for chair, and former chair David A. Aronberg '93 says, "There's a greater sentiment that we should be handling student services." This year, the council offered no comment on Mansfield's remarks or on the selection of Gen. Colin Powell as commencement speaker...
...virtual reality of the lending business, however, establishing an identity is a difficult maneuver. Brandishing the secret code-words--they served broccoli cheese pasta in the dining hall tonight--I tried to regain entry into the land of the Harvard living. But only workers at Hilles (Shepard Street) could confirm my existence--she still has books out, they vouched...
Despite opposition from conservatives, the Senate voted to confirm Roberta Achtenberg to head the fair-housing office in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She's the first open lesbian ever appointed to such a high federal post...
...there is little evidence that Clinton will go along with such steps. If he fails to adjust quickly, he will confirm the widespread belief that the biggest problem with the Clinton presidency is Clinton himself. Unless he can, as he likes to say, make change his friend, he is in for a decidedly unfriendly 3 1/2 years...