Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report sharply criticizing Sessions for abusing the privileges of his job by, among other things, using limousines and government flights for personal business. Sessions made himself look all the worse by publicly accusing his deputy, respected career officer Floyd Clarke, of plotting a coup. Sessions' wife Alice joined the fray. Last month she told a San Antonio newspaper that Clarke was among "10 to 12 people who are bent on" driving her husband from...
...breakthrough came a week after Clinton pulled out of the Finance Committee's negotiations in order to let chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan and majority leader George Mitchell forge the compromise. McLarty said Clinton will stay "a little above" the parliamentary fray at least until the measure clears the Senate and goes to conference committee. "The point," said an adviser, "is to get something on the table so that when the economy gets better, you can take credit...
...seeking the path of least resistance. He is hosting small dinner parties for the Washington insiders he once vowed to ignore. He withdrew from hard-nosed budget bargaining in part to avoid further loss of political capital. Some of this is pragmatic politics, because to remain in the fray over arcane tax provisions, said a White House official, "is a prescription for failure." But there are also signs that Clinton is increasingly spooked by opposition of almost any size. Last week he backed away from a widely leaked plan to name Bruce Babbitt to the Supreme Court when environmentalists complained...
Mansfield's comments drew the debate out of the genteel world of academic disputes and into the fray of student activism. At first, students mulled the remarks and waited for clarification, but a month later, their reaction was dramatic...
Royer says "it is obvious now that Clinton seems to be a man who enjoys the fray. He loves politics. He doesn't see the government as the enemy. He sees it as a positive influence for change...