Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Liston reminded the council that the mascotreferendum was the third item in his "Contractwith the College...
...satellite photos, as well as thousands of pages of classified reports from various intelligence agencies. White House aides monitoring the Chechnya crisis were able to dial into Intelink for daily CIA updates on the civil war. Advisers confused about conflicting news reports on the fighting referred to another menu item: an animated video, based on satellite photos, that showed how Russian and Chechen soldiers were maneuvering against each other in the capital city of Grozny...
Fearing that the second biggest item on their wish list (after the balanced-budget amendment) may also be in trouble, House G.O.P. leaders postponed voting on a congressional term-limits amendment until the end of the month in order to gather more support...
...mention of that reviled institution (House members generally refer to it with scorn as the Other Body). "The Senate?" Waxman said. "A wonderful place. Very deliberative body. Thoughtful people." Fresh from defeating the balanced-budget amendment, Senate Democrats, backed by some Republicans, are preparing to dismantle the next item from the House G.O.P.'s contract: the line-item veto. Senate leaders hope to take it up this week, but the bill probably will have to be watered down before it even reaches the floor. Even when the Senate has passed a bill that the House has sent it, relations between...
...meaning of checks and balances. But even if they end up losing some of the big early battles, they insist that the war is only beginning. "Our term is two years, not 100 days," says G.O.P. freshman Roger Wicker of Mississippi. "The balanced-budget amendment and the line-item veto are means to an end, and that's federal-budget discipline. The real test of our victory will be where the deficit is at the end of that two-year period...