Word: furlough
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were again working late because it was during the furlough and Jennifer Palmieri . . . had ordered pizza along with Ms. Currie and Ms. Hernreich. And when the pizza came, I went down to let them know that the pizza was there and it was at that point when I walked into Ms. Currie's office that the President was standing there with some other people discussing something...
...back there with a pizza" during the government shutdown. He said, however, that he did not believe that the two of them were alone. Testifying before the grand jury on August 17, 1998, the President said that his first "real conversation" with Ms. Lewinsky occurred during the November 1995 furlough. He testified: "One night she brought me some pizza. We had some remarks...
...maybe except for the platinum-blond streaks in his dark hair, dyed for a new movie role. His once bloodshot eyes seem clear and focused. The famous six-stitch gash he received in a vicious prison brawl is virtually undetectable on his still boyish face, thanks to a controversial furlough that allowed him to visit a plastic surgeon. And though he initially insisted that no questions about jail be asked, he not only appears comfortable but is also downright chatty about some of his prison experiences...
...were letting out murderers on furlough," Weld said. "You were sending sex offenders home for the weekend...
...suicide after losing her business to the persecution of the Federal Drug Administration, and thus argued for the agency's abolition? Or take a real instance: when the Bush campaign in 1988 speared Dukakis with the story of a horrible crime committed by a murderer let out on furlough, the tactic was condemned as demagoguery. Why? Because the validity of an argument is not proved by the emotional intensity of the proponent...