Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boost late Monday when the Justice Department filed a brief notice of intent to appeal last month's ruling from Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, which compelled Secret Service agents to testify in Ken Starr's Lewinsky probe. While that doesn't guarantee a DOJ appeal, it does leave the door open for Reno to challenge her own independent counsel in the courts...
HOUSTON: President Clinton wants the U.S. Census Bureau to add "statistical sampling" to its current door-to-door method of counting Americans. But despite the rhetoric -- "It's not about politics, it's about people," President Clinton insisted in Houston on Tuesday -- this battle has been fought across the aisle for years...
...questions were all related to my reading. I wrote, I thought, a credible exam. I put a return-address slip in the blue book to see how well I had done. It came back with an E. I sailed up to see Dr. Whittlesly. I knocked on his door. I said who I was and that I'd come to see about the exam. Surely there had been a mistake...
...always Carrey's take on the main character. "Truman isn't the man next door," says Weir. "He's someone who was brought up by wolves and lived in a nest of liars. The people around him were ambitious actors, and all his life they were leaning in very close to him. There was a lot of grinning by overfriendly people trying to gain his influence. Thus he has a very public persona, an exaggerated external self." The director could be describing the Jim Carrey who in 1994 had emerged from supporting status into the heat of celebrity and sycophancy...
Sanctions against India and Pakistan are the proverbial Masterlocks on the door of an empty stable. ?There?s not much that sanctions can accomplish now that both countries have tested their nuclear weapons,? says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Instead, the next step will be persuading them to abide by international conventions governing nuclear nations...