Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snuggle up to him and embrace an agenda that has been carefully tailored to their tastes. For Republicans who had been relishing the opportunities for legislative mischief that a distracted President presented, the idea of facing a vengeful, vindicated, legacy-building White House wasn't much fun. Any impeachment effort that was not bipartisan would amount to a suicide mission. The G.O.P. lacks the votes as well as the stomach to do it alone, and the House judiciary panel is hopelessly divided by party and ideology: Bob Barr vs. Barney Frank sounds like a special weeklong edition of Crossfire...
Clinton: It's not so much a new policy as an attempt to have a mechanism in place to deal with potential genocidal situations when they erupt. There may not be simple answers, but the African Crisis Response Initiative [an American-supported, African-led effort to enhance the African peacekeeping capacity] is a good example of what we're trying to do. One of the things we've never been able to get a consensus on is whether every nation might contribute to a permanent U.N. reaction force that could short-circuit genocides. Going back to 1992, that's something...
...Katzenberg, The Prince of Egypt represents a rather personal drama. This is his first effort in animation since he was ejected from the Disney fold in 1994 and his first chance to show that Disney's resurgence was at least in part due to him. (Some DreamWorkers have dubbed the new movie Zion King.) And since DreamWorks hasn't produced its first big hit after 3 1/2 years in business, some Hollywood observers believe that the company's very future hangs in the balance. "Emotionally, we have a lot invested," Katzenberg admits. Financials, however, he insists, are "not an issue...
Chuck Close has to be the most methodical artist that ever lived in America. He goes at the canvas with all the afflatus of a silkworm eating its phlegmatic way across a mulberry leaf. His way of painting, once set up, becomes an effort of pure transcription that relocates the acts of imagination way back in the roots of its system, and spends months on it. Essentially, what he does is copy faces large from small photographs. "Large" means enormous--canvases 8 ft. or 9 ft. high, filled with the staring face of someone you probably don't know...
...mission. But since January, it has often seemed that the independent counsel, in his zeal to prove the President tried to cover up extramarital sex, had forgotten all about Arkansas. Now Starr appears ready to close up shop in Little Rock. And there's no sign that his effort--which will have consumed four years and as much as $50 million when all is said and done--will result in any charges being filed against Bill or Hillary Clinton...