Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miles, raised more money or delivered more speeches than Gore. Though Gore was never particularly popular with his colleagues when he served on Capitol Hill, he now enjoys a substantial reservoir of goodwill and gratitude. And for the first time, when Clinton saluted Gore's "visionary leadership" during last month's State of the Union speech, Democrats actually cheered...
...This month Daschle will try to help Lott and the Senate reach an even wiser decision. Because sooner or later, the impeachment plane has got to land. Is there a runway down there somewhere...
...first hit list drawn up by the USTR targeted 42 categories of imports, including bath preparations ("other than bath salts") and dolls ("whether or not dressed"). That prompted much yowling from the scores of lobbyists and hobbyists who showed up at a hearing in Washington last month. Importers of feta cheese, a staple of Greek cuisine, implicitly invoked the wrath of the powerful Greek-American lobby and got their product knocked off the list. Pecorino cheese from Italy didn't fare as well; it stayed...
...enforceability of rulings by the World Trade Organization, which, to no avail, ordered the E.U. to drop its banana restrictions by Jan. 1. Rising concern about the U.S. trade deficit--up 50% in 1998 and expected to rise as much as 80% in 1999--has critics clamoring. Last month Senate majority leader Trent Lott, in a letter to President Clinton, warned, "If the Administration will not take action to protect trade agreements, Congress will have no choice but to take action...
Betty Rataj has beaten the clock. The alarm is set for 3:30 a.m., but like a kid before Christmas, she is up and about in her red bathrobe 10 minutes early. Outside, the St. Louis suburb of University City is asleep. But on the Rataj month-at-a-glance calendar, a crisp notation--"B&E: Papal Mass"--dictates an early start. Betty, 50, comes back down the hall with a black suit on and a pin-striped, bleary-eyed corporate lawyer, her husband Ed, in tow. She glows. "I woke up smiling," says the mother of five. "I think...