Word: extents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ickes, the street-smart infighter who had steered Clinton's re-election campaign only to be bumped out of a second-term job, flew in from California and went straight to the White House. Ickes' prescription for the President: Look the people straight in the eye and, to the extent you and your lawyer are confident, say, "I didn't do it." Only a loud, unambiguous denial would "stanch the wound," Ickes said. Thomason, meanwhile, helped the President rehearse the stern, reproving body language, according to a source familiar with the meeting...
Like anything else, there are pros and cons to both privatization and to tinkering. What troubles me, and what should trouble you, is the extent to which people are trying to influence-us by pointing out how much we have to gain from something without telling us how much everyone else might lose. Social Security keeps over 40 percent of the elderly above the poverty line because we pay a little more...
...attribute any great significance to my election, with Samuel C. Cohen '00 as vice president. But one analysis that does seem plausible is that the election represented a shift in priorities among members of the student body from delineations of ideology to promises of specific change. Indeed, to the extent to which I have influence over the council, my goal is to create a body which talks less and does more, one based less on the political and more on the practical...
...review of this unwieldy beast, the Faculty decided last year that the Core Curriculum is here to stay--at least for a while. Based on the reforms--the addition of a quantitative reasoning requirement and certain departmental bypasses that we haven't yet seen--it seems clear that the extent of the problem was not properly assessed. In all likelihood, the formidable bureaucracy of the Core will crumble under the force of its own weight eventually and yield to the sensible solution of distribution requirements inspired by the philosophy of the Core. In the mean-time, we must petition...
...magnanimous mood, telling Netanyahu, "Let's forget about it. We've got a lot of work to do." Netanyahu agreed readily. The President's initiative in defusing the issue improved the atmosphere of the talks. Says a White House adviser: "Given the distractions around here, the extent to which [the President] bent his shoulder to the wheel was stunning...