Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just as beleaguered House Republicans are debating the quickest exit route from the impeachment process that grew out of his earlier referral, Judge Starr has passed along a whole bunch of new evidence ?- this time, concerning presidential accuser Kathleen Willey. But unlike the Lewinsky report, the latest data dump contains no official accusation of wrongdoing. Starr is merely offering documents that suggest Clinton may have committed (you guessed it) perjury when asked about his relationship with Willey. And right now, that's the last thing the GOP needs. "Republicans on the Hill look on the Willey charges as a poison...
...dorm crew, and one time I was cleaning a bathroom in Thayer, when I really had to take a dump! Well, I didn't think anyone was in the room, so I just took a seat and let fly. When I was finally through, I heard some people in the common room giggling. But they weren't laughing at me-they were having sex! Anyway, I was pretty embarrassed...
...surprise last week, he sacked his ruthless spymaster, JOVICA STANISIC, whose loyalists fear he may be blamed by Milosevic for the "ethnic cleansing" of much of Bosnia. That explains why, after the ouster, Stanisic said Milosevic bore primary responsibility for the work of the secret police. Why did Milosevic dump a man who may finger him for war crimes? Internal reasons: Milosevic's wife, the retrograde communist MIRA MARKOVIC, and his fascist Vice Premier, VOJISLAV SESELJ, had it in for Stanisic. Yet with Serbs increasingly unhappy with Milosevic, the Butcher of the Balkans...
...operation deserves some respect from the most avid Dig-hater. Aside from the occasional 17th century bowling ball, most of what gets dug up is--that's right--dirt, enough to fill Foxboro Stadium to the rim 13 times. Some of it is being used to cap the various dumps around Boston, including one in Boston Harbor on Spectacle Island (where a park will be built on top of the new man-made dirt heap). The amount of dredged-up earth, if put in dump trucks, would stretch all the way to Brazil. The concrete used could make a sidewalk...
...prepared," says TIME reporter Lorraine Orlandi. "But most of the damage actually occurred on the west coast." The hurricane's behavior was also atypical: "People mostly prepared for hurricane-strength winds passing through," says Orlandi. "Nobody imagined that Mitch would stay in one place for almost a week and dump so much rain -- most of the deaths were caused by flooding and mud slides...