Word: mire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INVESTIGATIONS: The Man in the Mire...
...harder Senator Bob Packwood struggles to salvage his career, the deeper he sinks into the mire. First, his efforts to contest charges by 10 women of uninvited sexual advances spawned at least 18 new accusers and Senate charges of sexual misconduct. Then his attempt to discredit those charges by producing portions of his personal diaries unwittingly bred suspicions of other misdeeds: political-favor peddling. His campaign to reseal the diaries gave rise to an overwhelming Senate vote to subpoena the writings. Finally, just as Packwood was coming to the conclusion that he would have to resign, he discovered...
...done little to pull the country out of its mire. When the government faltered on its promise to deliver land and reparations, former contras and ex-Sandinista troops took up guns again to grab territory and settle scores. In Managua the leader who pledged national reconciliation could not even reconcile the players within her own government. Last January the 12- party U.N.O. broke with her, along with Vice President Godoy. That has left Chamorro politically dependent on the Sandinistas, who were allowed to retain de facto control of the army and police forces. Now they too are pulling away...
...national ordeal of Clarence Thomas, the latest appointment to the court, illustrates how far down into the mire the entire process has sunk. Sadly, those who felt that Thurgood Marshall's sucessor should be Black had their demand of color met at the expense of ideology; they were greeted with the one of the most conservative nominees of recent memory. Again, due to what happened to Bork, Thomas was without the judicial qualification that used to elicit a Supreme Court nomination...
...also by the two goals from fired-up Matt Mallgrave, Harvard (19-3-2, 16-2-2 ECAC) clinched the number-one seed going into the ECAC conference tournament and grabbed its second straight league title; Vermont (12-13-3, 10-9-1 ECAC) settled more comfortably into the mire of seventh place...