Word: exit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...David Maddox, who until last February commanded all U.S. Army troops in Europe, believes it is "totally wrong" to send in troops without having replacements ready, and to set a time limit without spelling out how the force's success is to be measured. "I am concerned about defining exit criteria by the calendar," he says...
...veto, he charged onto the virtually empty House floor to rant about the budget before C-SPAN cameras and a handful of junior members. The next morning, he whined to reporters that his stubbornness on the budget was partly inspired by an indignity--the President had forced him to exit Air Force One by the rear door upon returning from the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin. Hours later, when Gingrich appeared for a press conference, he had a prepared text in hand, as if trying to regain his composure...
...lobbyist, that Clinton would discuss budget issues on the return flight from Israel. So on Nov. 5, Gingrich spent more than four hours huddled with advisers at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, preparing one-page statements for use during the in-flight negotiating session. Gingrich even had an exit line ready to be declared upon touchdown at Andrews Air Force Base: "If they can make peace in the Middle East, we can get together in the U.S. on the budget." On the flight over, he invested another three hours talking with Dole about strategy. But at a meeting...
...that Gingrich had talked "during the whole trip" to and from Israel, thwarting even Dole's attempts to get some sleep. And even Dole was finding ways to put some distance between himself and Gingrich on the deplaning question by using statesmanlike humor: "We got in on the front exit, went out the rear exit. Maybe that's just normal rotation...
...murderer," says the Emmy-winning Howarth of his role on One Life to Live, "and then I became Todd the erotically charged heir to $27.5 million." When the rapist maniac became a long lost son and his criminal tendency was transformed into something sexually exciting, Howarth decided to exit. But never fear: through the magic of soap plots--and a new actor--Todd lives...