Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forget that we also have to deal with public statutes. We're doing it in public space," he said. "There are certain restrictions in Cambridge about what you can and cannot do in public...
...concept of universal service, which today means not just phone lines to rural areas but the wiring of libraries, schools, and hospitals for the Internet. It's the Clinton Administration's promise that the gap between have- and have-nots will not extend to information." Winners in the deal: Consumers with one phone line who make a lot of long distance calls will get a 5-15 percent rate cut. Losers: Small businesses and anyone with a second line for a modem or fax. Per-month charges for lines for business firms will go up from...
...bookstores lately. The others: Monkey King (HarperCollins; 310 pages; $24) by Patricia Chao (of Chinese and Japanese descent) and The Necessary Hunger (Simon & Schuster; 365 pages; $23) by Nina Revoyr (whose mother and father are Japanese and Polish-American, respectively). Although these books share some themes--all of them deal with parents and children in conflict over such issues as cultural and sexual identity--each author has a sharp, specific vision...
...quote was used out of context. It had nothing to do with so-called control, and in using the phrase "repeated things for so long," I was referring to the way teachers keep repeating basic grammar rules to students. The comment on "frustration" referred to what all of us deal with at times when we are hoping something will happen and it seems to take longer than we wanted...
...were just up to White House and Republican negotiators, there might already be a budget deal. Agreement was close enough last week that a secret rendezvous was arranged between White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Speaker Newt Gingrich to discuss a final sticking point: whether it was possible to legislate a change in the Consumer Price Index, freeing up billions of extra dollars to pay for G.O.P. tax cuts and Democratic spending programs. Kasich and Bowles argued in favor, with Bowles suggesting that President Clinton's support would neutralize criticism from liberal...