Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...budget procedures into place; put six-year term limits on committee chairmen; ban members from voting by proxy at committee sessions they do not attend; require committees to open their meetings to the public; require a three-fifths majority to approve tax increases; hire an outside auditor to hunt out waste, fraud and abuse; and pass a bill requiring Congress to live under the laws that it passes for the rest of the country, like occupational health-and-safety and antidiscrimination statutes...
Adding to the significance of these four contests is that Harvard has played more game than every other ECAC squad except Princeton. It is almost a must for Harvard to take at least three of the four games if it wants to be in the hunt for first place at the end of the season, since the other schools will be able to make up ground on Harvard later this month...
...reaction to the expanding probe of Tyson Foods has been swift and furious. In a prepared statement, company spokesman Archie Schaffer accused Smaltz of going "outside the scope of the independent counsel's charge" and of "taking off on a politically motivated witch-hunt." Tyson has hired Thomas Green, a top Washington white-collar defense attorney, to represent the company. Smaltz, however, says he was given the jurisdiction to look into any criminal charges arising from his original inquiry. "It's a very broad mandate," he said in an interview...
...prime danger for the Republicans, however, is in the easy passage from debate to demagoguery. Political discourse these days has a saw-toothed edge. When politicians don't mind sounding like radio talk- show hosts, the distinction between a search for solutions and a hunt for scapegoats gets lost in a blizzard of invective. An even more serious problem for Congress is whether the most radical G.O.P. proposals are really in keeping with what voters wanted. Democrats came to Washington two years ago claiming a mandate to remake health care, only to discover that most people didn't want...
...movie weaves its little stories into this big scene. A designer (Anouk Aimee) fights a takeover by a Texan (Lyle Lovett). A photographer (Stephen Rea) toys with three magazine editors (Linda Hunt, Sally Kellerman, Tracey Ullman). Two reporters (Tim Robbins and Julia Roberts in a nice little sketch) cover the story from their hotel bedroom. Two handsome Italians (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni) replay an old love affair. And a FAD-TV reporter (Kim Basinger) chirpily reports every outrage on the runways and in the salons...