Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Billing-Records Mystery. How did Hillary Clinton's long-missing Rose Law Firm records turn up in the White House residence? Did the First Lady obstruct justice by keeping them from investigators? Starr's investigators are trying to answer these questions. Aide Carolyn Huber, who found the records in January, was questioned a few months ago by a Little Rock grand jury; Mrs. Clinton testified under subpoena in Washington last winter. Starr's official fingerprint analysis of the documents hasn't yet been released, but if her prints turn up, so what? They were, after all, her documents...
...must reckon with a possibly uncooperative House, led by fractious freshmen who suspect Dole of selling out and last week pleaded with Dick Armey to be their champion. He must deal with the dogged Senate minority leader, Tom Daschle, and the filibustering Democrats doing their damnedest to obstruct and water down any legislation...
While these may be small inconsistencies, they nonetheless obstruct reality from our parents. Though I am uncertain how to solve these problems, I would hope that students are in constant contact with their parents to share moments that are not so pretty as those which will be painted this weekend, so that parents can get a full view of what happens at Harvard and can think long and hard, weighing more than a breath-taking speech from a professor and a really good croissant from the master's tea, before putting those bills in the collection...
...wholesale auctioning of legislation and transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest in our nation, cannot be considered a true volunteer for the public interest. Participants in the "Republican Revolution" who simultaneously engage in social services must be acting out of either ignorance or penitence. For they obstruct the last and greatest of our revolutions, the democratic revolution...
...clouds. Since the play is all about riches--about the enticements and confinements money imposes on the young--its return looks opportune. Between its first appearance and the latest, however, something seemingly bigger than a Depression (or a world war or a revolution in social mores) has arisen to obstruct its revival: a movie. In 1938 George Cukor directed Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in the leads, and they placed their stamp on the roles--indelibly...