Word: karens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mission, which is to work for the American people," Clinton said in his weekly radio address, solemnly announcing the release of new grants in the war on drugs. A new CNN/Gallup poll reports that Clinton's job approval ratings remain at 60 percent. But as TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty points out, Clinton malcontents -- notably disaffected Democrats -- could quickly turn that very separation between Clinton's peccadilloes and his policies into an argument for his resignation. "They could argue that resigning would be the best thing for the policies that Clinton says he cares so much about," Tumulty speculates...
...seemed to recognize its implications. Hurricane Andrew was not merely a wake-up call; it was a stick of dynamite under the pillow. Prior to Andrew, no one envisioned more than $7 billion in insured losses for a single storm. But after Andrew's landfall, Karen Clark, founder of Applied Insurance Research Inc., in Boston, one of a new breed of "catastrophe modelers," sent an audacious message to her clients estimating insured losses at $9 billion. If Andrew proved to be more intense than first estimated, she added, the damages could hit $13.5 billion. "Nobody believed it," she says...
...words: Commie Spice. --Karen Kilgariff
WASHINGTON: Talk about strange bedfellows. Clinton nemesis Dan Burton is furious over a planned Vanity Fair story that details alleged affairs in the Indiana Republican's own tumultuous 38-year marriage. Burton blames the President's men for orchestrating the piece. But TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty says that a White House-directed smear campaign is "hard to imagine" -- indeed, the accusation is hardly out of character for a man who is convinced the White House taps his phone and who's called the President a "scumbag...
...John Cloud. Reported by Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty/Washington