Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when five more Democrats enter the House--Clinton's lawyers demanded that they be given three extra days this week to call witnesses and argue the President's case in front of Hyde's committee. At the White House, optimism that the President will escape has almost disappeared. "I kept waiting for a moment when heroes would rise to the occasion, because it's such a unique moment in our history," says Leon Panetta, the former Clinton chief of staff who has been lobbying Democrats and Republicans to pass a bipartisan censure resolution. "That just has not happened...
Even the American Bar Association, which took a strong hand in crafting the original statute, may change its position in February, when its house of delegates will vote on an A.B.A. task-force report that recommends scrapping the law. If it must be kept, the task force argues, only the President, Vice President and Attorney General should be covered by it. Also, the Attorney General should have a role in selecting the independent counsels, and the Justice Department should not be tied to a hair-trigger threshold of evidence in deciding whether a counsel should be appointed. Other critics argue...
...another. There is little sense of progression but rather a sense of increasing complication. There is also a distinct lack of narrative cohesion. We are never really brought close to the trials and the truth commissions--personal reflections or individual experiences are limited especially in the first few chapters, kept very short and giving us very little to latch on to. This brevity makes it difficult at times to keep reading...
...Fifty Years of Human Rights: Has the United States Kept Its Promise?" was based on the declaration Eleanor Roosevelt drafted during her time on the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations...
Most of the charges aren't true. But the voluminous notes the FBI kept on Sinatra make us wonder what we will have to look forward to when the current crop of celebrities bites the dust. Somewhere squirreled away in a Washington file cabinet lie the secrets in Dennis Rodman's closet; the dark mysteries of Celine Dion and the true story of Leonardo DiCaprio. Until those yellowed files to see the light of day, we can only speculate what, in the words of the FBI, "Association with Criminals and Hoodlums" our favorite stars may have...