Word: elys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even setting aside the money question, I'm still not convinced that it would appeal to youth in any significant way. Eli Segal, the director of Clinton's service initiative, was a featured speaker at the youth town meeting in Washington. But either the audience was turned off by his platitudes ("The Washington Post says we can't afford to do national service.") or they just didn't care. In any case, a buzz of chatter filled the hall. A teacher who had come with a group of students leaned over to me, complaining, "They aren't listening." The crowd...
...best way to describe the Harvard women's swimming team's 152-147 loss to Yale last Friday at Blodgett is to let the Saddam-swattin', globe-hoppin,' Eli-graduatin' macho lameduck himself tell the story...
Panels focused on the economy, environment, and foreign policy, and Eli Segal, President-elect Clinton's choice to head up a new national service program, made an appearance to rouse enthusiasm for a domestic version of the Peace Corps...
...health-care ideas conflict with the rest of his economic agenda. He has promised, for example, to nurture leading-edge U.S. research firms. Yet he may impose new taxation and other burdens on medical research and pharmaceutical firms that could drive them overseas. Several companies, including Upjohn and Eli Lilly, have announced major plans to restructure, cutting back on spending in anticipation of Clinton belt tightening...
Many in the P.L.O. acknowledge their rivals' ascendancy. "The balance is shifting rapidly to Hamas and away from us," says Ghassan Khatib, a member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks. Some Israelis agree. "The fundamentalists," says Eli Rekhess, a political scientist at Tel Aviv University, "look to be Israel's biggest challenge today, not the P.L.O...