Word: defaulted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: A crackdown on delinquent student loans seems to have paid off: the Education Department reported Thursday that the 1994 default rate was 10.7 percent, a 40 percent drop from the year before President Clinton took office. The Administration was swift to take credit, and used the opportunity to press for further education tax breaks. It was the President, after all, who had proposed such tough measures as dropping trade schools with high default rates from national student aid programs, garnishing the wages of delinquent students and withholding their tax refunds. Meeting with six college students in the Oval...
...deliberative process. The system now depends on the voting public to select the candidates. The task at hand then becomes to educate voters, providing them with information about the candidates and their platforms, so that they can make well-informed and well-thought-out decisions. The media has, by default, become the link between the candidates and the people. Without television, radio and newspapers, those running for office would find it incredibly difficult to convey their message and make themselves known to the people...
...obvious choice for State. Colin Powell, considered at one point for the job, was pressed by the Vice President as a way to neutralize a potential rival in 2000. But the Republican of choice was always Cohen for Defense. Berger got the NSC job in part by default: he was offered the chief-of-staff position when Erskine Bowles at first seemed unwilling to take it, so NSC was the consolation prize. And Lake was rewarded with the CIA after being evicted from the NSC to make room for Berger...
...their country's relationship with the U.S. as intrinsically a rivalry, may fall into the trap of defining what is in their national interest as anything that annoys the U.S. or causes us problems. If the reflex to score points in a zero-sum game becomes a default feature in the software of Russian foreign policy, it will only generate mistrust on our side. That kind of vicious cycle, so familiar during the cold war, would be bad for everyone, but particularly for the Russians. They would risk repeating many of the mistakes that made nine-tenths of the 20th...
...typical Dole fashion, key decisions were made by default. When Will brought in press secretary Nelson Warfield, who had worked in Ron Lauder's unsuccessful 1989 New York City mayoral campaign, Dole met with him for all of seven minutes--and then pronounced him O.K. For campaign manager, Lacy selected Scott Reed, a cool bureaucrat who had no ties to Dole but who had run the Republican National Committee for Haley Barbour. Reed had to be persuaded that Dole would let the campaign manager actually manage the campaign. By the time Dole locked up the nomination, every member...