Word: exit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That, however doesn't mean that Starr himself will be around. "Rumors continue to fly that Starr won't stay much longer," says Novak. Already, she reports, there are indications that Starr's top deputy, Jackie Bennett, is preparing to exit. "For the most part," says Novak, "the work of the counsel's office looks like a cleanup operation." But at a cost of $40 million and still counting, Starr's continuing investigations are sure to give Congress pause when it's asked to renew the independent counsel statute later this session...
...take their gavel and go home. As conversions go, it was as if the Pope had suddenly begun reciting the Koran at mass. And it provided even more cover to the growing list of Republicans who are glancing at Clinton's stratospheric poll numbers and nervously looking for the exit. "A lot of Republicans have been saying that sooner or later everyone is going to come around to their point of view, and it looks like now some of them are breaking away from that," says TIME White House reporter Jay Branegan. "Republican pollsters are telling the leadership they have...
General and administrative expenses compounding at a 14 percent rate is unconscionable; no other college could exit with increases like this (in comparison, Harvard's have been kept in the low single digits). And Radcliffe is a college that does not have undergraduates. What are they doing over there? Never have so many done so little...
...brand-new year full of startling events to misinterpret and fresh expectations to defy. And so on cue the Senate set about defying them, managing to do what no politicians on this stage had done last year: remain calm, act like grownups and find the safest way to an exit...
...thirds vote to go ahead. In the probable event they would fail, the trial would adjourn and the Senate would take up censure. Temporarily setting aside the messy issue of how to craft a censure resolution that would satisfy all sides, the obsessively punctilious Lott had devised an exit strategy that seemed to have something in it for everyone. Conservatives would get a trial, albeit a brief one, and a chance to go on the record with a vote showing their desire to convict. Senate Democrats and moderate Republicans would get the promise of an abbreviated, dignified process...