Word: honeymooners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Clinton has been elected to solve. As the deficit climbs, it is hard to know who is telling the truth, who should be blamed (if anyone), and harder still to get a fix on what exactly Clinton plans to do -- largely because the President-elect is enjoying the honeymoon that all newly elected leaders receive...
...political honeymoon is a period during which a politician can say and do the most outrageous things and get away with them. In most respects, Clinton has nothing on his predecessors in this regard. Backing off on his promise to cut the White House staff 25% (which he appears to be doing), or asserting his highest regard for Washington's public schools while enrolling his daughter in a private academy, is small-bore stuff -- par for the course and unremarkable. But Clinton is breaking new ground when it comes to the deficit. The President-elect's insistence that the latest...
...woman sworn into the Senate. Instead, Moseley-Braun faced a press corps asking pointed questions about her personal life and finances, and about allegations of sexual harassment made against her boyfriend and campaign manager, Kgosie Matthews. After her first week on Capitol Hill, she declared, "If this is a honeymoon, I'm going to divorce...
...Carol Bartz, businesswoman, joining the chorus who urged Clinton to make the tough decisions while he had the presidential honeymoon...
Still, there is an irresistible urge to detect a master plan amid the riddled texture of transition. Chalk it up to Clinton's honeymoon period, that halcyon interlude when disorder masquerades under the name of guile. But as long as there is no punishment for the natural human urge to share a secret by leaking, the Clinton selection process will continue to provide a new twist to the concept of open government...