Word: embarrassments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Judy show that passes for political discourse; suppose they sit down in January and decide to grapple with entitlements, with Bob Dole playing a key role in the process (as Wendell Willkie did after 1940 in combatting America's isolationist tradition). Suppose the disclosures about campaign finances finally embarrass the two parties enough to create the climate for real reform...
Overall, the Crimson didn't embarrass itself too much considering the school spends approximately $2,737 on each male athlete and $2,181 for each female. Not terrific, but definitely not in Cornhusker territory...
...Rowlands steered to the Star by Republicans out to embarrass Clinton? "Obviously it's not impossible," says editor in chief Phil Bunton. "But we saw nobody else's fingerprints on this story but hers." One thing that made him doubt any political motives was her naivete. Rowlands didn't know what jobs Clinton aides like Leon Panetta and George Stephanopoulos held, and had misspelled their names in her diaries...
...Gerald Posner stated in his story, I played a role in Perot's decision to quit the 1992 race, but I am now a born-again Christian and am deeply sorry for this incident [in which Perot said that due to a Republican Party plot to embarrass his family he was dropping out of the campaign]. Yes, there was in fact a very involved conspiracy to remove President George Bush from the White House, and yes, I was one of the many people involved in that episode. I admit my wrongdoing and accept full responsibility for my own actions...
...Chechens' independence drive; it has been a tragic mess ever since. Russian artillery and bombs have blasted cities and villages to rubble, but the ill-trained Russian infantry has proved no match for the fast-moving, highly motivated Chechens. In a ferocious surprise attack begun Aug. 6 to embarrass Yeltsin at his inaugural, Chechen fighters succeeded in reversing the course of the war, driving thousands of Russian troops--and desperate civilians--out of Grozny, inflicting hundreds of casualties and surrounding thousands of other Russians in their barracks and strongpoints. Back in command of their capital, the Chechens intend to stay...