Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government will have to stay small. But that disciplined future is a little hard to imagine when right now in the House, Republican super-whip Tom Delay is proudly spending next year?s surplus "and then some" just to make sure there?s no money left for Clinton except for what he promised he wouldn?t touch. "We will negotiate with the President, after he vetoes the bills, on his knees," DeLay said Thursday. And it?s hard to imagine Democrats, a year or two or five from now, having any more self-control when they?ve gotten sick...
...Except for a few bumps in the road, Harvard's construction projects are sticking to schedule, and the results of the $2.1 million capital campaign are starting to show...
...Harvard had suspended the two students involved before they received their diplomas. And College administrators said that, except for cases of academic fraud, they were not aware of any cases in which Harvard had rescinded a diploma after graduation...
...public attention. Instead she has allowed her cousins to inherit the Kennedy legacy of political ambition and her younger brother to assume the role of family icon. Meanwhile, she has tended to her three children, walked anonymously through New York City's streets and granted few extended interviews, except during publicity rushes for her two books. "She is first and foremost a wife and mother," says Paul Kirk Jr., chairman of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and a family confidant. "That's a key priority for her. She saw how important it was to her as a child...
...river, these two behave toward each other with the casual care of brothers; they intuit each other's presence, but they rarely speak, except in a code born of their joint mission and of the fact that "we talk 10 times a day." One will say, "Smith called. He didn't like what we wrote." The other will say, "Did you read what the EPA said yesterday... Once they acknowledge that, they're screwed." I have no idea what they're talking about, but everything has the tone of frontline bulletins. Standing beside Kennedy near the bow, I realize...