Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NEWT GINGRICH USED TO DREAM last spring about the day when he would get to sit down and play a kind of Russian roulette with the President. The stakes would be very high. The whole government would be held hostage while the country waited to see who would blink. The House Speaker would confront Bill Clinton with a choice: Sign a historic balanced-budget plan on Republican terms or watch the government shut down. ''Which of the two of us do you think cares more about the government not showing up?" Gingrich asked...
...everyone will agree with Newt Gingrich's positions, but he is the most influential individual in American politics since F.D.R." KENNETH HOLLOWAY St. Louis, Missouri...
...APPLAUD YOUR CHOICE FOR MAN OF THE Year [Dec. 25-Jan. 1]. Like him or hate him (and I don't always like him), Newt Gingrich puts his money where his mouth is. It has been very refreshing to watch someone in such a high position concern himself with doing his job rather than spending time trying to beef up his approval rating. JOHN HALPIN Colorado Springs, Colorado Via E-mail...
Moments after President Clinton concluded his press conference, House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave one of his own in Seattle, calling the President's remarks "a political game." Gingrich swatted away Clinton's claims about how close the two sides had come to a budget truce, jotting down the key numbers in the budget negotiations on a huge tablet as the cameras rolled. Having sent financial markets reeling the day before with his tough prognosis for budget peace, Gingrich remained grim, calling Clinton's comments "very, very disappointing." But Gingrich sidestepped Clinton's central point, notes TIME's Michael Duffy...
...degrees, but not as cold as the Challenger launch, which had a temperature of about 36 degrees. The purpose of the mission is to provide practice for using tools in space, but also to retrieve a Japanese satellite that was launched last March. That satellite holds two dead newts and fertilized newt eggs, as well as crystal-growth furnaces and infrared telescopes." Endeavor and its six-person crew -- five American and one Japanese astronauts -- is scheduled to return on January...