Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really did prefer, given the choice, to retire when there was ((another)) Democrat as President." Clinton somehow apparently managed to confirm White in that desire, even though the Justice must have known that the President is likely to appoint someone with a strikingly different legal approach (a standard Washington gag is that while White was named by Kennedy, he was philosophically Richard Nixon's first court appointee...
Gilhuly cited the administration's overturning of the "gag rule" and its decision to allow the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 into the country as examples of the increasing legality of abortion...
...things," writes curator John Caldwell, "and we realize with a shock that that is what they are for us as well, something from the past, our own youth, familiar once and fraught with memories. . . It suddenly dawns on us that we have not touched a basketball for many years." Gag me with a madeleine, Marcel...
...Office, Bill Clinton began a sweeping reversal of 12 years of Republican policy. The President on Friday signed several major White House orders. One abolished Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness, which critics had assailed for weakening environmental regulations. The others all concerned abortion. Clinton ended the Reagan-Bush "gag rule" on abortion counseling at federally financed clinics and lifted prohibitions on fetal-tissue research, abortion at military hospitals and funding for overseas population-control programs. Said Clinton: "We must free science and medicine from the grasp of politics." No way. Protesters who had gathered at the White House...
...barrage of "Is Letterman leaving?" jokes begins. The late-night host, whose unhappiness with NBC has been a running gag for years, now has a whole new arena for backstage barbs: he has embraced a rich offer from rival network CBS.No doubt there will be guests offering career advice, wisecracks about contract negotiations, maybe even "The Top 10 Things Dave Wants to Ask Dan Rather." Networks have battled over high-priced stars before, but never so publicly for such an extended period. A guide to the principal players and the action...