Word: offer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Into this seething mess steps President Bill Clinton, whose two-day summit meeting with Yeltsin is scheduled to begin Tuesday. Neither President stood to gain much presidential luster from the meeting, since Yeltsin is politically moribund and Clinton is scandal-scarred and unable to offer the Russians serious assistance. U.S. officials fretted about the meeting until the last moment, wondering whether Yeltsin would still be in office when they arrived at the Kremlin, or whether he might quit as soon as they left...
...would not be taking the wherewithal for a new bailout with him, but insisted there were other topics that needed to be discussed: the stalled START II treaty, terrorism, nonproliferation, Kosovo, Iraq. The trouble with those subjects is that positions on both sides are already fixed; they don't offer much for an upbeat communique. Perhaps the biggest achievement Clinton could hope for was to reassure Russians by his presence in Moscow that the U.S. and the West are still concerned about the country and still engaged with it. "Imagine us not going," says a Clinton aide. It would send...
...ongoing fallout over the next few weeks and months. Instead of prejudging or predicting what that verdict will be, we wanted to put forth all the facts as we now know them, provide inside reporting about how the Clintons and others came to make their momentous decisions, and offer some well-reasoned analysis by our own reporters and respected thinkers that would shed light on the issues involved. That way, we felt, we might offer a smart harbor amid the gales of punditry now in full force...
...morally wrong, but if I know someone who did it, I know maybe they had a bad marriage; maybe it was an accident. Maybe there's a compelling narrative to explain why they strayed." In other words, familiarity breeds moral relativism. While President Clinton has yet to offer a compelling narrative of his own, this phenomenon may help explain the consistent findings in polls that while Americans don't like the idea of the President's cheating on his wife, they are not inclined to punish him for doing so. Welcome to the club, as Frank Gifford might...
...people of the U.S. decide to dispose of Clinton, maybe we can trade. We offer 20 Italian politicians, all guaranteed sexually harmless, for one U.S. President. Just come and pick the ones you prefer; we have a rich choice. FABIO FUMI Trieste, Italy...