Word: count
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five minutes into the period, I count two of the 17 students in the class listening to the music teacher...
Unlike the president, Hillary Clinton has appeared cautiously aware of the consequences of insulting the pompous politicians on the Hill. By the Washington Post's count, she has met at least fifty times with members of Congress in both houses and both parties. With a mix of courtesy ("Yes, Congressman"), warmth (she hugged House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski) and blunt honesty (she warned legislators that sin taxes alone could not finance health care reform), she has generally won high marks and--more important--respect. While the president has made members of Congress feel isolated and ignored...
...issue isn't race. It's class, and the frustrations of poverty. The people involved in the riot, Black and white, have been systematically denied just treatment--decent jobs, safe neighborhoods, good schools. These are things they once could count...
...fact very few women are calling for the chance to become a grunt. "Nobody is pressuring us on this count," says a Defense official. Women Air Force and Navy pilots are officers, eager to rise through the ranks to senior command. Combat units in the Army and Marines are made up mostly of enlisted personnel without the same opportunities. Some women do argue that any female who meets the physical requirements for combat units should be able to volunteer, but there is no sign of a ground swell. Captain Melea Riley, who commands a training battalion including both...
Opponents shouldn't count on it, though, for part of Clinton resists giving in to skeptics. He has talked increasingly of late about "changing the way Washington works," and he sees health care as a powerful weapon in that task. As he said to one Senator last weekend in Virginia, "I don't have to have this job. I like it, and I wanted it. But I didn't take this job not to change things. That's what I want, and that's what I think we Democrats, with some Republicans, can do. I'm willing to take...