Word: keene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Johnson administration. Adjusted regularly for inflation, it serves as a primary indicator of the economy?s health - the fewer people under it, the better - and also establishes which families are eligible for government aid, like food stamps and Medicaid. As might be expected, the current administration is not too keen on pushing up the income requirements, since a higher cutoff would mean millions more people eligible for aid programs; White House officials are advocating extensive additional studies prior to any changes...
...chances of picking up those votes. That?s because those chances remain at slim to none, and to mangle the old aphorism, Slim?s out back holding a fund-raiser. With McConnell the one in charge of doling out the Senate GOP?s soft money, Republicans aren?t too keen on bucking him. Still, McCain and Feingold have done their part to make the bill as simple as possible, so as to give no one an easy excuse. They?ve shorn the bill of its amendments and put it forth as purely a soft-money ban, up or down...
...creates, and The Ice Storm, a subtle and powerful film about WASP culture in the '70s. Both films, the latter especially, emphasize the unhappiness and ennui that infects suburban existence. Directed by Sam Mendes, a British theater director, American Beauty continues in this burgeoning tradition, framing, with a keen eye, the miseries and peculiarities of American life...
Purdy, home-schooled by his counterculture parents in West Virginia, said he was spurred to write For Common Things by "a keen sense of ambivalence...between the obligation to do public work and the suspicion that that work is futile and self-indulgent...
...Nielsen, trapped at the station by the fierce Antarctic winter, has become famous for reportedly having found a lump in her breast and for treating herself with chemotherapy drugs dropped to the isolated settlement in a daring air mission. She's also made it clear that she's not keen on having every detail of her plight made public - specifics of her condition have been withheld at her request. But that hasn't stopped her saga from being documented and updated almost hourly on CNN, MSNBC et al since it first broke in June. There has been a distinct lack...