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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign could be sure of getting rid of them, even if the Pentagon knew what Saddam was hiding and where. (It does not.) Bombing Saddam into submission is no sure thing either, because the Iraqi President, who builds palaces while his people starve, seems willing to let his country hunker down and absorb almost limitless punishment. Such an attack would involve bomber squadrons as well as missiles, endangering American lives. It would also convulse the Arab world, which fears a destabilized Iraq--"Beirut with ballistic missiles," as a Gulf Defense Minister describes it--as much as it fears Saddam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACING DOWN A DESPOT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Democratic senator John Glenn in his opening statement attacking the Republicans shows he remembers that the best defense is a good offense. During the Nixon years, we saw the Republicans hunker down when they were being investigated. Now the Democrats are in the spotlight, they are taking the offensive. But these hearings are not just politics as usual, and they should not be made partisan, as Glenn has tried to do. We must let Congress freely investigate questionable practices. I recall as a child watching TV and seeing Glenn in space. I have respected him most of my adult life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1997 | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...They hunker down. Still so much to say. They have long ago left the smell of the flower behind and are hurtling down streams of consciousness as if taking rapids. Their necks and shoulders are locked. Their hands are disembodied and skitter from left to right like the automatic returns on electric typewriters. Finally, they stop and wait, heads up in bloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STUDYING STUDENTS | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...congressional investigations that could paralyze both parties. So which will it be? A replay of July, when in one week the White House and Congress moved forward together on welfare reform, health-care portability and raising the minimum wage? Or a bitter trench war in which both sides hunker down, snipe at each other and avoid anything resembling common ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUR JOURNEY IS NOT DONE | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...after Bill Clinton won the White House, only to be dashed by the public perception of his arrogance, and a year after Newt Gingrich followed a similar arc, the two men have been given a second chance at governing. But whether the two will create a bipartisan consensus or hunker down into the bitter scorched earth fight that produced gridlock and government shutdown last year remains to be seen. A bipartisan spirit will be needed to tackle the growing problems of campaign-finance reform and reforming entitlements. On the surface, leaders from both sides seem ready to work with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Over | 11/6/1996 | See Source »

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