Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Center. So, I can't notice that all the promotional mail for my favorite proposition is paid for by the Coalition to Deport the People Who Pick Grapes. No local papers with detailed breakdowns of what every wishy-washy candidate says he or she believes is tucked under my door. All I have is my metal toothpick and one or two paid advertisements for the sheriff...
...closed-door briefings to members of Congress last week, the administration generally found bipartisan support for threatened NATO airstrikes aimed at protecting civilians in Kosovo. But several lawmakers said airstrikes alone would not be enough, that ground troops would have to be dispatched to keep the peace...
...statements about the need for civility at a moment of this historic magnitude. But on Wednesday he went before the microphones--without Judiciary committee chairman Henry Hyde--and trampled all over the idea of a censure deal that would pre-empt impeachment proceedings. He also ruminated in a closed-door meeting about expanding the hearings to include Clinton's campaign-finance abuses, the Administration's transfer of satellite technology to China, and the many other scandals known as Whitewater. It sure looked as though Newt was in charge and ready to launch an open-ended inquiry into all Clintonian abuse...
...effort. A lot less has been done to put out the ravaging political fires and deal with the root causes of the Balkan mess. The Kosovo catastrophe has been unfolding for months, the Western strategy for unifying Bosnia stumbled from the start three years ago, and the next-door nation of Albania has been cracking for more than a year in vicious political polarization. Yet the West has been largely looking the other way while the crises fester at high geopolitical and humanitarian cost. Nothing much will get done without the leadership of the globe's sole superpower...
President Clinton doesn't mind taking on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, but the last thing he needs just now is to open a second front against the military-industrial complex. And that is what he was facing after the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a closed-door meeting with him, threatened to go over his head to Congress to get a bigger budget. So, clever politician that he is, Clinton last week signaled his support for an increase in military spending of as much as $15 billion, or 5%, a year...