Word: hook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some hot issues as well. Dodd supports a moment of silence in schools; Daschle doesn't. Dodd opposes term limits; Daschle favors them. Dodd views a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution as "the worst kind of gimmick, a prescription for chaos designed to get us off the hook by having us avoid our duty, which is to cut the deficit on our own initiative." Daschle supports the amendment, apparently with an eye to public relations rather than policy. "We Democrats have a perception problem," he argues. "The public thinks we're only about taxing and spending. Supporting the amendment...
...other business, Eliot will spend $650 to hook up to Direct TV, a satellite television service, the committee decided unanimously. No decision was made on purchasing a big-screen television...
...health-policy makers. "Their message is shocking and flies against the whole history of this epidemic," says Dr. June Osborn, former chair of the National Commission on aids. "They're saying we don't have to worry if we're white, heterosexual adults. That gets the public off the hook and may keep parents from talking to their kids about sex. The fact is, teens are at enormous risk for experimentation...
...weeks since the Bucknell game, I have secretly wished that my comment would be justified late, that the band would put in a particularly egregious performance and my flippancy would be off the hook...
...think they should be let off the hook so easily...