Word: constraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCurry's frustrations have at times spilled over into the briefing room. One week into the scandal, he told reporters, "I think you all know the constraint that I'm laboring under here, and I don't want to belabor the pain and anguish I feel." Two weeks ago the spokesman himself became the story, when he suggested to a Chicago Tribune reporter that Clinton's ultimate explanation of his relationship with Lewinsky was not likely to be simple or innocent. (McCurry later explained his comments as "a lapse in my sanity.") Even McCurry's famous jokes...
...Bates is similar to the Ivy League in the sense that education comes first here, and there's a time constraint," Harriman said...
...heard nary a peep from them in the first several days of the Lewinsky story, aside from more legalistic nondenials from Clinton. Now the Clinton team says it cannot explain anything in detail because it must collect information for Kenneth Starr's investigation. Yet Clinton is under no legal constraint, and the only facts that matter reside in his head. Simply put, an innocent man does not behave as Clinton has in the past two weeks. This is the case of Sherlock Holmes and the dog that didn't bark...
...when I was on the Harvard Faculty. Indeed, it seems quite likely that, rather than being prevented from regularly tenuring Faculty because it is so small, the department is so small, because it hardly ever awards tenure. Demrosch's proposition implies that the English department suffers an absolute constraint on its size that has been imposed by the administration; this may be so, but my fellow junior Faculty and I certainly never saw any evidence of such a constraint during the early 1990's. What we did see was a Faculty that regularly demurred at conferring tenure even on remark...
Without this kind of false rhetoric, my father would not have been promoted. By making it a requirement for professional promotion, volunteer work became a burden associated with an increasingly unpopular political system; this connotation eventually emptied the noble meaning of volunteer work reducing it to an unpleasant constraint...