Word: factionalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cuts, including $20 billion in Clinton's new "investment" programs. The moderates want to gut the space station, the supercollider and a number of weapons projects, such as the V-22 Osprey and remnants of the Strategic Defense Initiative and apply the proceeds to deficit reduction. The centrist faction was bolstered by a report from the Congressional Budget Office that revealed that Clinton had overestimated the deficit savings in his own plan by $16 billion. Echoing a growing chorus of lawmakers who believe Clinton underestimated the public appetite for cuts by merely nicking programs he should have killed, Penny said...
...from those of the HRRC, despite what members said at the meeting. The recent fissure seems to have been caused less by an identity crisis than by a mutiny in the ranks. After the official adjournment of the meeting, a shouting match broke out between the Wilson-Decaro-Garcia faction and the Fine-Taylor-Erskine faction over the the club's mission. Wilson stated that he wanted "to see [HRAC] succeed," Sun. Harry...
...School students criticized an article in this month's GQ magazine that portrays Harvard Law School as a faction-ridden battlefield...
...last three elections, the Beys-Heinicke faction has won out. Aronberg best Kalkanis in fall 1992. Beys staved off Rhew's efforts to impeach him last spring. And with the departure of a large part of the Kalkanis-Rauch-Rhew faction last year, Heinicke won the fall election handily over Duncan...
Calling for a sacrifice may win you points in baseball or religion, but in politics it's a riskier proposition. When Bill Clinton used that word in his Inaugural Address, it marked a victory for the deficit hawks among his supporters. This faction of the President's aides, joined by centrist Democrats in Congress, is urging him to take advantage of the new public willingness to accept what Ross Perot calls "shared sacrifice" to balance the budget and revive economic growth...