Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think what I have to do as President is to try to somehow call forth very simple but powerful feelings from the American people as we face each of these challenges. They have to feel both more secure and a greater sense of responsibility...
Three months later, Clinton was ahead in the polls but losing traction on health care. Top advisers noticed that he sounded confused on the stump, skipping back and forth between reform plans without clarifying which one he was for. Health-care groups with various agendas bombarded Clinton's Little Rock campaign headquarters with faxes charging him with backing away from the issue. In fact, the campaign was in a deliberate straddle. Clinton's aides, led by James Carville and pollster Greenberg, told him health care was important but cautioned him that the less specific he was, the better. After...
Hart, who is a senior editor of the conservative National Review, and a frequent columnist for the Dartmouth Review, writes that too many students finish college with no knowledge of the most important literatures of the Western world--"major works they ought to read in order to venture forth on the life of the mind...
...mystery may have been solved by researchers from the U.S. and France. In last week's Science, they put forth evidence that the empire was undone by a combination of climatic catastrophes. First a volcanic eruption blanketed the region in ash. Then a drought, which eventually lasted 300 years, crippled the farming communities on which the cities depended, forcing urban dwellers to abandon their empty granaries and silent temples. Refugees migrated to southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq), which had escaped the disaster. But the unexpected influx of people from the north so strained the region's resources that the Akkadian empire...
Last week in a carefully timed release. Washington put forth the official explanation in publishing Foster's letter. The note instability, as officials put it, and how little was actually known of his character...