Word: gift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deserve a real community space, the kind the Major tried to permanently give us in 1901. In turning the Union into office space for professors, the administration has willfully perverted the Major's plan. Ironically, the administration has stolen his building to give the rich Faculty the gift he intended for poor undergraduates...
...young woman who loved to gossip. Sitting not far away was Linda Tripp, another former White House aide, who had joined the Bush Administration as a secretary and later ran afoul of the Clinton team. Though Tripp was earnest and efficient, with good instincts and a gift for prose, few White House staff members had good things to say about her last week. "She was awful," says one former official who worked with her in the White House counsel's office. "She was surly; she was sullen; she had a chip on her shoulder and a nasty look...
...Starr, whose investigation had been going heaven only knows where for four years, Tripp was a gift from God. They met on Monday, Jan. 12, and Moody was stunned by the speed of Starr's response. The next day, Tripp was outfitted with a body wire so they could tape her meeting with Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City. Once again Lewinsky discussed her plans to cover up the affair, and her hopes that Jordan would help her land a good...
...gift of $2 mil. What is that? About $300,000 per win this season...
Pilbeam said Howells "feels very fortunate tobe able [to give this gift]" and to have Watson inthe new position...