Word: congressmen
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...TIME/CNN poll at the beginning of the year, 37% of the respondents believed Bill Clinton, 29% Paula Jones and 34% were not sure, which is unlikely to change. We've been building to this sexual peak for decades, through scandals concerning bold-type names from stage, screen and sports, Congressmen, Senators and presidential candidates. And now, live from the capital, it's the President. As the ultimate celebrity trial goes forward, there's little hope of truth and every chance we'll all be diminished. As for nuclear disarmament, never mind. We're busy with sex over here...
...That job was basically briefing Congressmen and Senators on foreign policy...putting things in understandable terms" MacFarquhar says. "She, of course, relied on her good people and communication skills...
...columnist lives in Boston. "I decided I couldn't live in D.C. because I couldn't be tough enough if I were chummy with the Congressmen. I suppose it was my sense of the Law School that led me to live here," he says, but adds that recently, "there's been another reason...
...conventional law enforcement, including more arrests of drug dealers, confiscations, prosecutions and standard-length prison terms, would eliminate 70 percent more crimes against people than spending the same amount on enforcing mandatory minimums. The reason mandatory minims are so popular lies in part with the short attention span of Congressmen concerned about reelection every two years. Harsher prison sentences look tougher, and they cost less initially than expensive rehab programs that can run $1,800 per person in the first year. But long-term costs plummet: The study says that if the goverment spent the same amount over...
...Canada reached a record $420 billion last year -- Congressional opponents led by Richard Gephardt counter by citing 118,000 U.S. jobs lost to cheaper Mexican labor. Most telling, opponents say, is that under NAFTA a $1.4 billion trade surplus in 1994 has plummeted to a $15.4 billion deficit. Congressmen are also unhappy that fast track has prevented them from adding labor and environmental safeguards to the pact, and vow not to let that happen on any hemisphere-wide agreement. As a result, the rest of the region is increasingly nervous about just how hard Clinton will fight for fast-track...