Word: department
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will depart for Washington Monday morning, will work under R. James Woolsey, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Nye will coordinate all government intelligence from the CIA, the State Department and the Defense Department...
...other times, for all of Clinton's love of process and consensus, he has shown a tendency to depart from it on a whim. Attorney General-designate Zoe Baird told Clinton about her employment of illegal aliens as drivers and nannies last November, but she survived the transition's much vaunted vetting process anyway. Clinton turned to campaign chairman Mickey Kantor to be his Trade Representative even though the Los Angeles lawyer has no experience with the issue and must recuse himself from two upcoming rulings because the law firm in which he retains a financial interest represents...
...chastity is too hideous to even contemplate, wondered erroneously, (while surreptitiously checking my palms for stigmata), whether this enterprise involved vows of poverty and celibacy. My high school friends from St. Josephs Convent gently reminded me of the rigors of life there and the reflexive crushing of attempts to depart from accepted doctrine...
...depart with grace is a sign of character...
...Faith" inevitably moves to an undaunted celebration of the woman's body. In the final scene, the women, now nude, recline sensually in heaps of flesh or depart from the group to reach again toward the heavens. In one particularly striking moment, the seven naked women stand in a line and walk directly toward the audience. They force us to confront their sexuality, saying "Here are our bodies...