Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avoid unseemly tugs of war, the city requires that the hospitals alternate pickups of victims not well enough to state a preference. And the police are on hand to sort things out. "They'll back off when it's not their turn," Bedford chief of police Bill Haverly says matter-of-factly. "There's never been a real fight as far as I can remember...
...pages about the First Lady's account of her actions after Foster's suicide, a dozen pages scribbled by lawyer Jane Sherburne during breaks in Hillary's January 1996 grand jury appearance. Starr is looking for evidence that the First Lady lied in sworn statements, especially about the Foster matter or the disappearance and reappearance of her Rose Law Firm billing records. The White House says the notes are not incriminating, and most legal observers doubt the independent counsel will bring perjury charges against Hillary Clinton...
...rover will not operate for long--no more than a month--before Mars' punishingly cold climate (-15[degrees]F by day but plunging as low as -125[degrees]F at night) kills it. The Pathfinder lander, also able to take readings, could function for up to a year. No matter when the machines wink out, however, Mars is unlikely to remain unattended. On Sept. 12, Global Surveyor, another robot probe, will arrive at the planet, settle into a 250-mile-high orbit and begin two years of mapping the surface. A second lander-and-orbiter pair...
...parties addicted to the big money needed to run modern campaigns and especially not with Republicans, who are far more successful at raising the soft money contributions that are the source of much of the abuses, in charge of Congress. Still, the President has remained curiously silent on the matter, barely mentioning it since the February speech until making reforms the subject of last Saturday's radio address: "Let's not let them get away with it. ... Congress has made little progress toward reform since that time, and it's clear that the legislation will not pass - will not even...
...lovely that, in an age when pop culture dances with the dunces, someone has the mandarin urge to arouse and test his audience. Lovelier still when, as in The Pillow Book, text and texture meet so exquisitely. Sex is a visual art, Greenaway says, and writing is a matter of life and death...