Word: empted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incapacitation--than they will admit publicly. And if the government falls even farther behind this fall and winter with its payroll, aides are concerned about public uprisings. Their nightmare is that both events will happen simultaneously. Speaking to TIME, a Kremlin adviser described the scenario they sought to pre-empt by firing Lebed: unrest breaks out, Yeltsin's failing health disables him, and Lebed declares the President unfit to rule, calling on the military and security structures to help him "induce order" in the country. Nobody, however, except Interior Minister Kulikov seems to take seriously the tale of an imminent...
...latest episodes of who sleeps with whom, there is also the pre-emptive self-outing of divorced Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe. Two weeks after voting for the bill restricting gay marriage, Kolbe, a Republican, went public with his homosexuality, which had been an open secret around Washington, to pre-empt an article that he knew was coming in the national gay magazine Advocate. Kolbe later won a primary race, but with well under the 80% margin he had enjoyed over the same candidate two years...
...neutralizing the fiscal issue and embracing tax cuts of his own, President Clinton took away the Republicans' major weapon. By embracing a values-based critique of social policy, Clinton was able to pre-empt the social and cultural issues that had so emboldened the Republican right in 1994. This political approach also made it possible for the President to neutralize the other key political issues the Republicans hoped to exploit: crime, welfare and immigration. By taking these issues, as well as the fiscal issues, out of play, President Clinton succeeded in taking away virtually every potentially effective issue that Dole...
...staff's attempt to pre-empt a possible Jewish protest against Yasser Arafat is wholly uncalled for. Was there any staff criticism of black students' interruption of Charles A. Murray '65's Bell Curve lecture, either before or after the fact? Or of the disruptions of antiabortion activists during presidential candidate Arlen Specter's political address last spring...
...coveted. TIME Los Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante reports: "The endorsement will be of limited value from a political perspective because Wilson is viewed by Californians as a failed candidate. But from a fundraising point of view, it is pivotal for Dole. With Wilson's support, he can pre-empt the gold rush into the state by the other candidates and sew up the funds for himself. He and Wilson have even talked about joint fundraisers. Dole will raise money for his campaign, and Wilson will retire his debt." A Dole aide says Wilson, who withdrew Sept. 29 after fundraising...