Word: halted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Specter's solution has already gained more currency among Republicans than any other impeachment alternative -- such as Gerald Ford's public rebuke plan, or the White House-favored "censure-plus." Even Henry Hyde had to admit the senator was "ahead of the curve," although he added that nothing would halt his committee's impeachment probe before Ken Starr has a chance to speak on November 19. Still, with at least five Republican representatives having come out publicly against impeachment over the past few days, GOP lawmakers no longer have the votes in the House -- let alone the Senate -- to impeach...
...life is just a sort of intellectual McGuffin, designed to make us soppy liberals take The Siege more seriously than we ought to. The movie does, after all, present the bruising, intricately staged spectacle of New York City brought to a quaking halt by a series of ever more serious bombings--first a bus, then a crowded theater, then a federal building--mounted by that lately easiest-to-despise of all groups, Arab fanatics. A panicked government institutes martial law, which includes internment camps and occasional descents into torture when no one can think of any better solution...
Last week, after Iraq announced it would halt U.N. weapons inspections, U.S. officials accelerated plans to dynamite Saddam Hussein into compliance. As the Pentagon refined its strategy, Defense Secretary William Cohen and National Security Adviser Samuel Berger hit the road to sell the plan to Arab and European leaders. While they got a frosty public response, officials say the private message was a tacit green light. Result: President Clinton may decide to hit Iraq without a U.N. vote, something that has bottled up attack plans in the past. The strike could come this week...
...wrong. But why even bother? Instead of finding the truth at the heart of an issue and presenting it in a way that inspires laughter (and possibly understanding), he occasionally gets stuck trying to be defensive. Whenever he tries to qualify his jokes, the show momentarily screeches to a halt...
...score one for tree huggers turned fire bombers: the lynx is no longer a forgotten feline. But aside from that meager p.r. coup, the group committed as much an act of self-destructive futility as of terrorism; the fires didn't halt Category III, which Vail Resorts said would proceed more or less on schedule. The blazes won't even delay the start of the ski season...