Word: manning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many ways, Bush was just another young man from a successful family looking for something to inspire him in a career...
...right and left"--but the death penalty is still a sore spot in his campaign. So when Ashcroft described Judge White as "pro-criminal and activist" on the Senate floor, he was making a perfect political maneuver. Yet as Ashcroft surely knew, the description didn't quite match the man...
After a furious lobbying campaign, White was rejected by the full Senate in October on a party-line vote. Bond decided to vote with his fellow Republicans against the judge he had earlier called "a man of the highest integrity and honor," as did presidential candidate and Judiciary chairman Orrin G. Hatch, who had previously called White "a fine man...
...what you will about Alan Greenspan - and people have said plenty - the man is never predictable. The Federal Reserve Chairman made headlines again Tuesday, announcing a quarter-point raise in key interest rates. The hike, meant to stave off inflation in these times of hyperbolic growth and spending, caught some analysts off guard. "This raise is a bit unexpected," says TIME financial writer Bernard Baumohl. "There was a lot of uncertainty as to whether the Fed would move, since the economy has been showing signs of slowing down on its own." Example: Key consumer indicators such as retail sales...
...earth's atmosphere today is significantly different than it was in 1966 - it's filled with man-made devices that could be damaged by going bump in the night with a rock flying at 250 miles per hour. Accordingly, a planned space shuttle mission will be delayed until the 19th. But people on the ground would do well to turn their gazes to the storm - due to irregularities in the earth's rotation, another one isn't expected until the 22nd century...