Word: murkiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ickes decision is Reno's murkiest -- and therefore biggest -- in a while. Any investigator she appoints will quickly head, with cameras rolling and Republicans crowing, to Clinton and Gore. By delaying, Reno may be hoping the Starr-tainted independent counsel statute will be quietly discarded when it comes up for renewal this winter. In that case, Reno could pick Al Gore's poison instead of leaving the three-judge panel that chose Starr to work its magic again. With even Reno's own staff pulling her in different directions these days, fear of a sequel -- and consequently, the need...
...wonder what kind of loyalty it really was. She chose loyalty to person over loyalty to country, deciding that the greater good of the country was not worth betraying the President for whatever crimes he had committed. Woods's portrait is where the question of loyalty becomes murkiest, and I'm not sure how many of us would point to her as an example of all that is good about loyalty...
...murkiest set of provisions -- designed to assist economic growth -- would introduce a large new loophole for those who buy stock in certain types of companies capitalized at less than $50 million. Regulations for this measure have not been written; critics charged that the scheme would create a new set of tax shelters -- dodges that do little for the economy but benefit those who can strain large profits through porous rules...
...soared to -23 degrees C (-10 degrees F) -- to set up detectors that would peer at the faint microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang explosion, which theoretically started the universe. In the high altitudes atop the pole's ice cap, the detectors are well above the densest, murkiest layers of atmosphere and can peer through some of the dryest, clearest air on earth to help determine whether the original Big Bang was unique or was followed by smaller ones. A few hundred yards away, close to the enormous geodesic dome that covers the thickly insulated buildings...
...really gave the H-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union? Newly revealed facts about one of the murkiest episodes in U.S. history yield some intriguing answers...