Word: heck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican moderates decided to spare neophyte Speaker Dennis Hastert the embarrassment. In exchange for a hastily scrawled amendment tying the later years of a 10-year, $792 billion tax cut to promised reductions in the national debt, the "Hell no" folks said "What the heck" and climbed aboard a GOP ship that, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, won?t sail very far anyway. "If Clinton got this as the final bill, he?d veto it," he says. "This is merely an opening gambit for the most ravenous tax-cutters in the party ?- Bill Archer & Co. in the House...
...agencies that provide aid overseas. "No one person has all the information," he says. "There is not a silver bullet of a source." His experience suggests that covering the diplomacy to end a war can be as harrowing as covering the war itself, though he concedes it is "a heck of a lot less dangerous." He does like adventure, however; for his last book, Air Warriors, he flew with Navy pilots for two years...
...local Hispanic students get into the U.C. campus. It was politically correct but mostly cosmetic. Stephen Carroll, a senior researcher at the Rand Corp., notes that percentages of blacks and Hispanics on California college campuses actually dropped under the old policy: "I am skeptical that affirmative action accomplished a heck of a lot for minorities." Even defenders concede its faults. "I think it was coming close to leading us to a quota system," says U.C. Irvine chancellor Ralph Cicerone...
...course, that won't make much of a defense should the cybervandals ever find themselves in court. The FBI says it isn't planning any more arrests soon. In the meantime, expect more of this phony war: no charges, no collateral damage and a heck of a lot of posturing--on both sides...
...What the heck is going on here? In Washington, President Clinton takes to the airwaves to declare "victory" in Kosovo; over in Belgrade, Serbs are dancing around like they?ve just won the World...