Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This choice is not supposed to be a difficult step. Most Harvard students come to college knowing where they stand. If, however, you are unlucky enough to hold moderate views--neither conservative nor liberal--you may need to flip a coin to decide which side to join...
...action sooner, the initial U.S. strike forces would have to double up as peacekeepers until support personnel arrive -- a messier scenario. Clinton also has not canceled plans to attend a major fund raiser in California Sunday, he adds, an unlikely place from which to supervise an invasion. On the flip side, holding off until Tuesday to ensure the military brass's "clockwork operation" exposes Clinton to a possible rebuke from Congress: TIME correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says a resolution vote could be organized as early as Monday night...
...deny a General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade without amendments and within a specified time. The process is considered crucial to preventing complex trade treaties from being picked apart by special interests: NAFTA, for instance, had been negotiated under the auspices of this process. What caused the Clinton flip-flop? Criticisms from groups representing consumers, as well as complaints from conservatives...
...collective memory bank, offering a hero-narrator made up in part of Twain, Horatio Alger and the Dead End Kids. Walter Claireborne Rawley first appears as a nine-year-old St. Louis street urchin in 1924. Jaded beyond his years, with a side-of-the-mouth style of flip talk ("Well, shave my tonsils"), Walt recalls meeting the mysterious Master Yehudi, the man who would change his life: "We were standing in front of the Paradise Cafe, a slick downtown gin mill." "You're no better than an animal," the master greets him. "If you come with...
...President endorsed Mitchell's new posture. Asked by reporters, he declined three times to repeat his threat to veto any bill that does not provide universal coverage. White House aides think they can offset the image of Clinton the flip-flopper by playing up the image of Clinton the man who at least made the first important steps in the direction of change. Even so, the President is wary of the mainstream plan. While it offers a promise of keeping health-care inflation in check, which was one of his goals, it aims to reach just 93% of all Americans...