Word: letterization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone besides accountants will notice. The trick is simply to spend $12 billion or so in a phantom month between fiscal 2000 (the year currently being budgeted) and fiscal 2001. That, folks like Specter are hoping, will be enough to cover a few more necessaries without violating the letter of the 1997 agreement. The spirit of that deal lies in tatters, of course; creative lawmakers have already have exempted nearly $28 billion in proposed spending from the caps ? largely through "emergency" spending ? even with only a 12-month year. That might be too expedient, even for the Beltway. "There...
...odor of Widener's deeper recesses, while providing olfactory nostalgia to generations of readers, is actually the smell of decaying books," Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wrote last January in his annual letter to the Faculty...
...renouncing violence. "It's been three weeks and their silence speaks volumes. I believe the offer of clemency should be withdrawn," she said. But before she could get any political mileage from this rebuke, the White House made clear that Clinton himself had sent the same message in a letter to their lawyers the day before, saying they had until this Friday to meet his terms. Even by the Clintons' marital standards, this was a strange one: two formidable politicians trying to prove their toughness and leaving people to wonder who outmaneuvered whom. "I don't know if she knew...
...same. About 100 corporate and academic trustees of the business-funded Committee for Economic Development, a policy group that includes leaders from such companies as Mobil, Honeywell and Sara Lee, have signed on to a proposal to ban soft money and pass other reforms--and have sent a pointed letter to that effect to House Speaker Dennis Hastert...
...seem as if ROBERT DOWNEY JR. has little to look forward to besides flattering orange jumpsuits and improving his letter-writing skills. Earlier this month, the tormented actor returned to prison for violating probation on a 1996 drug conviction. But if his prior incarceration is any guide, he will encounter a panoply of cinematic possibilities, whether he wants to or not. In a forthcoming book by director Mike Figgis, Downey recounts having a stint in solitary confinement interrupted by a prison deputy. "This guy says, 'I hope I wouldn't be crossing the line if I brought a script...