Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sending him a chilling message. They demolished former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, a Bush surrogate for whom the President campaigned actively, 55% to 45%, and elected liberal Democrat Harris Wofford, a campaign neophyte who had hammered away at the Administration's poor economic performance. The voters, Wofford declared, "are fed up and want action to get our economy off dead center and get us moving out of this recession. It's time to take care...
...Britannia's capacity to rule the waves, as Massie also points out, was somewhat illusory; the Royal Navy during much of Victoria's reign was largely unfit for combat. Weighed down by moribund traditions that Winston Churchill acidly defined as "rum, sodomy, and the lash," British tars were ill fed and worse led. While their social-climbing officers fopped and preened, sailors spent long days at sea scrubbing decks and polishing brightwork, or wielding cutlasses in boarding drills as if they were still in the age of sail. Meanwhile, gunnery practice was cursory even though naval bombardments were ludicrously inaccurate...
...Fed cautioned that the study was not detailed enough to prove outright discrimination. But the overall pattern was consistent enough to prompt several Washington lawmakers to call for new antidiscrimination bills...
...even when researchers can find no scientific basis for an alternative treatment, it still may be effective. This is the famed placebo (Latin for "I will please") effect. To most laymen and most conventional doctors, placebo means "fake" -- phony medicine doled out to please a whiny patient or fed to the control group in a scientific experiment. If the medicine being tested does no better than the placebo, then it's worthless, because the placebo does nothing...
Ambinder picked a Connecticut middies pocket on the right side-line, beat another Huskie and fed Clark well into the offensive end. Clark then collected and crossed the ball, creating a corner opportunity...