Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sacred moment into a profane one. But a White House insider argued otherwise: "It was a great piece of bait, and the Republicans took it." Instead of focusing their fire on Clinton's lying or misconduct in the Oval Office, he noted, they are using their sound bites to defend the most unpopular man in America. That may not pull Starr up much, and if the Democrats have any luck, it may pull down the Republicans. And it certainly is a diversion...
...political vacuum only compounds the financial crisis: While the government is no longer making any effort to defend the plummeting ruble and frenzied bankers go after dollars to protect their personal fortunes, Chernomyrdin looks set to simply ban trading in foreign currencies. The reinstated prime minister hopes to straddle the mutually exclusive demands of the Communists, whom he aims to bring into government, and the IMF, which he plans to hit up for more billions. "Chernomyrdin has given no sign of having a coherent policy to stop the meltdown in Moscow," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge...
...region's Godzillas: the Japanese yen, the Hong Kong dollar and the Chinese renminbi. The three are relatively stable, buttressed by huge economies and, in the case of the renminbi and the HKD, by solid "pegs" to the U.S. dollar that the Chinese government has pledged to defend--even at tremendous national cost...
...scream instead. Eye contact, too, establishes a threat to the cougar, or you may wave it away. Raise your arms to make yourself seem bigger than you actually are. If in a group, band together and pick up the children. If you are with pets, forget about them. Defend your children. And if the lion attacks, fight back, brandishing a threatening object--knife, branch, stick...
...Democratic presidential nomination, has a lot at stake. Not too long ago, Gephardt was engaged in some bitter policy clashes with both Clinton and Vice President Gore. But that was pre-Monica. Gephardt has spent the past seven months suppressing his own Oval Office ambitions in order to defend its current occupant. Every two weeks since April he has convened a meeting in his office with Conyers, Frank, Berman and top staff members to talk about the Lewinsky scandal, the timing of a report from Starr and its probable impact on Democrats in this November's midterm elections. The outcome...