Word: consensuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Podesta's 50th birthday Friday night by performing an X-Files skit with Hillary and showing a video of the actual cast singing "Happy Birthday, Skippy." Down Pennsylvania Avenue, the Senators too were in the mood to party. Perhaps because bliss may be fleeting, they got drunk on consensus. After the unanimous vote, Kennedy and his wife Victoria ran into Lott in a private room just off the Senate chamber. Lott gave her a big kiss: "How about some crawfish etouffe?" Lott joked when the discussion turned to favorite foods. Kennedy tried on his best Mississippi accent: "I want...
...extent that there is some consensus among sensible experts, it is that the dire predictions of major social disruptions are way overblown. The most likely problems involve temporary glitches, especially overseas, in billing and invoice systems, that could cause some disruptions in business and government. The Internal Revenue Service, you will be relieved to know, promises to be prepared. (So it's true about death and taxes.) And the Social Security Administration, which sends out benefit checks, also says it's ready...
...industry standard every bit as powerful in the '60s as Windows is today. By the end of the decade, Big Blue had effectively set the two-digit date in stone. Every machine, every manual, every maintenance guy would tell you the year was 69, not 1969. "The general consensus was that this was the way you programmed," says an IBM spokesman. "We recognize the potential for lawsuits on this issue...
With some concentrations feeling that they already offer enough freedom for undergraduates and with others feeling like their requirements are not enough, there is no general consensus on what is to be done...
...minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned that harsh fact on Monday when former defense minister Moshe Arens, the man who appointed Netanyahu to the No. 2 spot at the Israeli embassy in Washington in 1982, announced he would challenge Netanyahu for the Likud party leadership. "There appears to be a growing consensus within the party," says TIME world editor Joshua Cooper Ramo, "that members may not want to bet all their cards on Bibi...