Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...underestimated the depth of respect accorded the bureau among other law-enforcement agencies and was forced to backpedal. He announced later that he would still demolish ATF but assign its agents to the U.S. Secret Service. ATF agents, who saw the shift as conferring instant prestige, loved the idea; the N.R.A., however, realized it was about to lose one of its best fund-raising assets. Suddenly the N.R.A. rode to ATF's rescue, blocking its demise. The reversal drew an acid appraisal from New Jersey Representative William Hughes, who accused the association of retreating because the Secret Service "might actually...
...papers. During last year's fight over health care, they blamed her for Dole's willingness to bargain over the Clinton plan long after most Republicans had turned against it. Some others around Washington suggest she was never committed to sweeping reform, but kept Dole identified with the idea to prevent Republicans from looking like diehard supporters of the existing system in the fall elections. "Sheila Burke was the Republican executioner of Hillary Clinton's health-care bill," insists Democrat Lawrence O'Donnell, who was then the Finance Committee's top staff member. "I saw the health-care saga last...
...past two years, support for recognition has risen from 48% to 61%, with just 27% now opposed. The number of MIA "discrepancy cases"--airmen shot down over North Vietnam and still unaccounted for--is down to just 55 by official count, and most people seemed resigned to the idea that the fortunes of war are bound to leave a few mysteries. A day after Clinton's announcement, Wayne Lancaster, 49, of Old Bridge, New Jersey, was gazing at Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, whose black granite slabs are incised with the names of more than 58,000 American dead...
...reincarnation of two great lovers in a pair of palace monkeys is an unusual plot idea in itself...
...Auster to very early Norman Mailer, from Ann Lauterbach to William Kennedy. These suggest a parallel harmony to the paintings, not art history or criticism but analogies in writing. (Since, unlike most curators, the writers can write, one can read this vade mecum with pleasure after the show.) The idea is to show how pervasive the areas of American experience that Hopper raised have become. The show falls between two more formal Hopper events: the recent publication, at long last, of Hopper's catalogue raisonne, and a definitive biography, due in the fall. Both are by the leading Hopper scholar...