Word: friday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton met Friday with a key Hong Kong democrat, but it was Washington Republicans who may have made the President's day. GOP leaders, who had begun preparing a deluge of anti-China legislation in the run-up to Clinton's departure, now concede that the President's trip has been a success, and it's failed to produce the election fodder they had anticipated. Newt Gingrich, who had earlier called for the trip's postponement, admitted Clinton's triumph and approved of a closer U.S.-China relationship through gritted teeth. "It's less expensive to be friends than...
Unpaid miners were planning to return to their barricades along key rail lines Friday and more state employees were poised to walk out. "IMF officials believe the crisis will force Moscow to undertake reforms which would leave it better off in the long run -- but only if Russia can make it that long," says Meier. Tax reform has persuaded the IMF to release a delayed $670 million installment of a long-term loan, but Russia wants a $10 billion to $15 billion rescue plan. "The bailout has become the key to recovery," says Meier. "It's a psychological thing -- investors...
...felt slightly relieved. Things didn't seem as though they'd changed at all. We reached our destination and parked the car. The idea was to meet our two other friends inside and bowl until management kicked us out. Admittedly, these were pretty lame plans, especially for a Friday night. But for those of us living in small-town suburbia, this is as exciting as things...
...addition to the cast of Seinfeld, but because this is a one-hour drama filled with pseudo-Melissa Etheridge music and emotional pretense, we are meant to take her problems more seriously than George Costanza's. "Ally McBeal is a mess. She's like a little animal," notes Nancy Friday, a sex-positive feminist if ever there was one. "You want to put her on a leash." And what does Ally's creator David Kelley have to say about Ally as a feminist? "She's not a hard, strident feminist...
...That decade gave us, among other things, the erotic art of feminist group-sex advocate Betty Dodson and a NOW-sponsored sexuality conference that covered the subject of sadomasochism. And it gave us Erica Jong's titillating Fear of Flying, as well as Nancy Friday's 1973 best seller, My Secret Garden, which celebrated female sexual fantasies...