Word: difference
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the House and Senate bills differ in some particulars, their main objectives are largely the same. Like the Senate, the House would...
...that tapes of lewd phone conversations between U.S. Representative Mel Reynolds and Beverly Heard would cinch their case were thrown off when the 18-year old girl invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions. Her attorney explained her actions by citing worries that Heard's testimony might differ from what she said six months earlier, when she recanted accusations Reynolds had sex with her. Why she recanted is unclear. Charged withcriminal sexual assault,aggravated criminal sexual abuse, child pornography and obstruction of justice, Reynolds, a 43-year old Rhodes scholar, on Tuesday listened stone-faced to himself urge...
...develop their own atom bomb. "Much to my astonishment, one finds evidence of KGB humor," said CIA Director John Deutch. "Washington is referred to as Carthage, San Francisco is Babylon and New York is referred to as Tyre -- all ancient cities that came to ruin." Reasonable people may differ as to whether this is evidence of the KGB's sense of humor or the CIA's lack...
Chain gangs further differ from the death penalty because they add a more humanitarian overtone to the right to live. Maintaining the ban on chain gangs would guarantee the right to live under decent conditions. Even if convicted criminals lose their rights to voting and social services, they are still protected from "cruel and unusual punishment...
...visits Washington and is usually reachable only by pager. But Morris has managed to overshadow almost every other Clinton adviser by winning the backing he needed most-not only from the President but also from Vice President Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. While the First Lady's policy views differ from those of the right-leaning Morris, she has admired him since 1982, when he helped Clinton overcome an image as an out-of-touch liberal and win back the Governor's mansion in Arkansas. Both Clintons hope Morris can lead them to a similar comeback...