Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nixon, Washington-based director of federal relations for the University, who lobbied in favor of the new legislation cited two specific provisions for which Harvard fought...
...brings parity," Nixon said, because student loans forgiven by public universities had not been taxable under the old system...
...course, this was a laugh line. Back then, plastics was the reigning symbol for everything that was ersatz in American life, for the phoniness and stifling conformity of the adult world Benjamin was being asked to join. The word itself was an epithet, as in "Plastic Pat" Nixon or these Jimi Hendrix lyrics from the song If 6 Was 9, talked-sung with a straight face and an up-the-Establishment disregard for grammar: "White collared conservative flashing down the street,/Pointing their plastic finger...
...uses footage of existing Clinton speeches to imply that the President is speaking about a message from the aliens, an extension of a tactic Zemeckis used in "Forrest Gump," where the protagonist was cut into historical footage so that he appeared to be talking to everyone from LBJ to Nixon. Clinton lawyer Charles Ruff says Zemeckis effectively gave the President a role in the film without his authorization, and has sent Warner Brothers a letter charging the film improperly manipulated the President's statements and used his image for commercial purposes. A Warner Brothers spokeswoman says the company wants Clinton...
...hearings on the campaign finance scandal that begins next Tuesday. The hearings will of course be partisan -- the committee will subpoena 442 Democratic targets and only 34 Republican targets. But just as no one could have predicted that the Watergate hearings would uncover the tapes that eventually sank the Nixon Presidency, these hearings could produce enough evidence that even Congress won't be able to ignore the calls for meaningful reform...