Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Clinton pulls, however, it is Berger who moves into action. While media-savvy Madeleine Albright grabs most of the headlines for selling American foreign policy, Berger most often crafts it--and carries it out. Last month he waded deep into the Wye Plantation talks between Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu. In August he helped orchestrate a strike against Osama bin Laden. Says Energy Secretary Bill Richardson: "People don't realize how much he's increased the stature and scope of that...
...George Bush's solicitor general, he suited up every month for Supreme Court combat, often arguing with cool conviction such passionate issues as flag burning and school prayer before the feisty Justices. Later he was paid more than $1 million a year to help corporate giants uphold their legal victories and reverse their losses. His greatest strength in court has always come from his obsessive preparation out of court. Last week he spent hours in moot sessions with his assistants, who assumed the role of committee Democrats, testing him on every aspect of the case...
...been just another day at the Borden Chemicals and Plastics plant. A month later, half a dozen similarly hazardous chemicals were released but remained on plant grounds. The following year, in July 1997, vinyl-chloride monomer and ammonia escaped from the plant and forced the closing of Route 73. In July 1998, a cloud of hydrochloric acid spewed out, shutting down roads in the area for about 20 minutes...
...chairman's remarks, to a gathering of his Fatah organization, were meant for local consumption only. Arafat, says the official, is furious with the group?s secretary-general, Marwan Barghouti, who has led an anticorruption campaign within Fatah that culminated in an anti-P.A. riot in Ramallah last month. The ferocious rhetoric, says the source, was aimed at rallying Fatah activists behind Arafat. When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to freeze the land transfer until Arafat recanted, the chairman, according to a confidant, regretted the remarks. It was U.S. special envoy Dennis Ross who suggested the wording...
...much do Americans value the right to vote? Pundits and politicians have not yet finished arguing whether the 38 percent turnout in this month's elections was good or bad, whether it showed a new trend of civic involvement or a gross apathy to political life. Perhaps, however, the true test of how much Americans value the right to vote is not how often we exercise it ourselves but how willing we are to deny it to others...