Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House officials aren't barred from working on campaigns, but they aren't allowed to work on fund raising. Yet in several Clinton-Gore campaign-strategy documents produced by Herman's office and released last Friday by the White House, fund-raising plans are discussed in detail. In one document, a blueprint for organizing the "Asian Pacific American Community," the fund-raising section was written by Huang and dictated to a staff member in Matsui's office. It included a $7 million goal for donations from Asian Americans...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: "This is one of the last great rituals of the Republic," reports TIME's White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister on the eve of President Clinton's fifth State of the Union Address. "People really do gather 'round the television and listen to the President detail his plans for the country." McAllister says Clinton will try to equal the success of last year's address, delivered amid a series of government shutdowns, which immediately turned the tables on Congressional Republicans. Clinton's declaration then that "the era of big government is over" became his most memorable line, while then...
...newspaper office in the Pacific Northwest. The men, also charged with robbing two banks in the Spokane area, are currently in jail awaiting trial. The paper reports being told by a Justice Department official: "At this point, they are our strongest lead in the Olympics bombing." Another intriguing circumstantial detail concerns 42-year-old Charles Barbee, one of the three: he worked for AT&T in Georgia, Florida and Idaho, and may have held a grudge against the company. In an interview with the Spokane paper in 1995, Barbee claimed AT&T was an immoral company that mistreated Christian white...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1) flunking out; 2) doing work; or 3) working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...dart out of the crowd without warning and try to touch the star. In Buenos Aires, where the Evita crew spent its first five weeks of filming, M.D.s and other unruly fans were a big problem, and Izzard had to get the help of a six-man security detail. Budapest is more laid back--but so are the police. When the cameras roll, they too stare at Madonna...