Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed tax credit for children to cover teenagers as well. The Clinton package was a significant step in the direction of the competing plans that had passed both the House and the Senate the previous week. And yet even as Republicans tried to sound magnanimous, hints of resentment kept creeping in. With the air of a hostess who has suddenly chanced upon a badly dressed party crasher, Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison sniffed, "I don't think it's quite fair for the President to come in with changes that are not in either the House or the Senate bill...
...first stage of expansion is disruptive, it can only get worse in the future. "This venture," says one of its American designers, "will succeed or fail over whether the process can be kept open for all deserving countries, including the Baltics." Yes, he says, the admission of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania--which might need security reassurance more than Poland does right now--is "doable, but not immediately." It will happen over the next five to 10 years, he predicts. That is not the way it looks from Moscow. "The Baltic republics are strictly off the table," says Dmitri Trenin...
...most part anti-erotic. Smart city gals (Hepburn, Sullavan, Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, nearly the whole fabulous constellation of '30s star actresses) would toy with this bumpkin, only to find he had magically restored their emotional virginity. In his private life--which he kept private--Stewart was a responsible grownup, a bachelor until 1949, when he married Gloria McLean. She had two sons from a previous marriage; they had twin daughters...
Those who kept the secret and lied repeatedly to the public to hide the technological manna from heaven end up looking omniscient and justified. He shows how America's interests were served for decades by publicly stonewalling the UFO issue while achieving, in total secrecy, the scientific breakthroughs that literally define our modern world. The debris from the Roswell crash was not manufactured on Earth. PAUL DAVIDS Los Angeles...
...kept thinking that it couldn't be me--there are too many smarter people all around me," he said. "I was completely stunned. I'm kind of like Mr. Magoo. A lot of things sorta happen to me, and I'm oblivious...