Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, Democrats were the ones privately likening the mess to Watergate, and Republicans were publicly bragging that even Janet Reno's Justice Department could not ignore the problem. Reno took the initial steps to determine whether there were grounds to name an independent counsel to investigate the D.N.C. fund raising. In fact she had no choice: under law, once G.O.P. lawmakers had approached her with their complaints, she had to send the matter to the Office of Public Integrity for a 30-day review. After four investigations of various scandals, even the White House has come to see an advantage...
Something about an electoral high must make people giddy. As Bill Clinton power glides toward re-election, nearly every day produces some new mess over his campaign funding. These include the disclosure that Jorge Cabrera, a convicted Florida drug dealer, contributed $20,000. The Democratic National Committee announced last week that it had returned the money, claiming no knowledge of his problems with the law. But in the overall responses of the President and his circle, which have ranged from the placid to the evasive, there is a whiff of hubris, the air of a campaign that sees every question...
Gerstner has revived the old-line software and hardware businesses that were at the root of the last corporate nosedive. He parachuted Thoman into the firm's struggling PC division with a mandate to clean up the mess. Thoman killed some of the group's nearly 500 models of machines and breathed life into those he kept while pounding costs through the floor. In January, IBM spent twice as much and took twice as long to make a PC as industry leader Compaq. Now it claims it has No. 1 beat...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Don't mess with our traditional family values...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "So many people have said, 'Why do you want to get in that mess [politics]? It can't be fixed. America's already gone to pot.' And I say...'For heaven's sake, if everybody thought like you, we might as well zip it up and go home...