Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mention rancorously. House Democrat Jim Cooper of Tennessee, whose stalled plan was upstaged at a moment when he is running hard to capture the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Gore, said dismissively that a bill that passes in committee "by a one-vote partisan majority is one that doesn't have any legs or wings." Stark rejoined sarcastically: "I just think he's exactly what Tennessee deserves, and I wish him Godspeed in the Senate." As for Cooper's plan, Stark says, "His bill is all pap and blather. Everybody's got to love it because it doesn...
...what he may have said about Whitewater in phone conversations with Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. As for congressional hearings, Clinton knows they will become a highly partisan circus. But the prospect nonetheless puts him in a dilemma pithily summarized by his chief Republican congressional tormentor, Iowa Representative Jim Leach: "If ((Democrats)) provide me a hearing, their President is likely to be embarrassed. If they don't, they look like they have been complicitous in working with the Executive Branch to block full disclosure...
...night life, the best bet is to go to the White Elephant Hotel, just two blocks off Broad Street on the water, to hear the piano player. In the summer, musicians Jim Badger has islanders and tourists alike rolling with his music...
...Meaning derived from the Golden Rule. Such a specific claim to moral authority can hardly withstand charges of tax chiseling and corner cutting by Hillary and those closest to her. "Can a President credibly advance an ethic of national service," asked Clinton's nemesis on the Hill, Congressman Jim Leach, "if his own model is one of self-service...
...Zhirinovsky. Like Charlie Chaplin's lampoon of Hitler in The Great Dictator, it deflates a truculent buffoon without losing sight of the fact that some windbags blow up with a bang. "Bruce is a first-rate journalist whose work has a witty bite to it," says assistant managing editor Jim Kelly. "He lets the irony and absurdity grow out of the news, instead of just imposing jokes on what happened last week." And like the Supreme Court, which last week paid unanimous tribute to the usefulness of parody, he also knows that humor is an essential part of the national...