Word: margined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that he had perhaps one or two votes more than the 217 he needed for passage. But halfway into the 15-minute voting period, two Democrats the White House thought it had won over, James Hayes of Alabama and Tim Johnson of South Dakota, voted nay. Instantly, Clinton's margin disappeared. On Capitol Hill a nervous Howard Paster, the top Clinton lobbyist, telephoned White House chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty in the Oval Office. Mack, he said, "what's happening to our strategy...
McLarty told his boss the news, and in the next moment, Clinton saw his presidency pass before his eyes. His margin was evaporating, and with it faded his plans for cutting the deficit, reordering public priorities and overhauling the nation's health-care system. For a moment, Clinton looked utterly defeated. "I know the look in his eyes," said McLarty later. "It looked like 1980 ((when as Arkansas Governor he lost his first re-election bid)). It was a look of sadness and disappointment and anxiousness...
...past five years, hospitals have recognized the need to set up hospices, but "hospice doctors are considered to be on the margin of medical practice," says Annas. "They are not thought of as real doctors because they don't try to cure people, they just help them die. So many physicians either don't refer patients to hospices or wait until the last week of life before they...
President can do just about anything he wants, which is why he is under constraints to behave so well. As much as the bills he introduces, the speeches he gives and the Executive Orders he signs, a President is defined by the small acts at the margin that burn themselves into the national consciousness: Jimmy Carter with his killer rabbit and lust in his heart, Lyndon Johnson displaying his surgical scar, Richard Nixon strolling on the beach in his wing tips. In years to come, the biggest small thing of the Clinton presidency may turn...
...right refused to go away? In Oregon, members of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition continue to make inroads in the state Republican Party, losing the chairmanship by a slim margin to a "moderate" who is pro-life. That's what you might expect in a state that, once you get past the coffee bars of Portland, is still the Wild West. But in New York City, the nation's largest St. Patrick's Day parade took place without a gay contingent, a judge having ruled that its longtime sponsors were free to exclude one. The liberal Babylon also decided...