Word: opened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inflict the maximum political pain on the Republicans without totally killing any prospect of a deal. But a political campaign for a new bill requires focus, which is something this White House has largely lacked during the second term, and particularly since the Lewinsky scandal broke open in January. Between managing an Asian financial crisis, nuclear tests in India and Pakistan and ethnic conflicts in Kosovo, the strategy is to book his days so fully that he never appears bogged down in scandal. Recent weeks have seen him planting flowers in Harpers Ferry, Va., talking to the Delaware assembly...
...bedroom and study open unto Arrow Street [and] recently I have had my work seriously interrupted by an extremely loud bell...every quarter of the hour," said Eza Sims, a composer who works at home, at Tuesday's City Council meeting...
...eliminate tuition, it seems reasonable that it can significantly improve financial aid packages without considerable financial consequences. It has been reported that Harvard's extra hours in the financial aid office this spring allowed them to woo graduating high school seniors with individual deals. Why not simply be open and fair and help all students with a more generous financial aid plan, generating both gratitude (a good quality in alumni) and good publicity...
...also increasingly a Taiwanese government. The tight control by the mainlanders who came over with Chiang in 1949 has vanished, replaced by a feisty, wide-open democracy. Polls indicate that 83% of the population identify themselves either as Taiwanese and Chinese or as Taiwanese. Only 16.3% say they are simply Chinese. As for the future, 86% of Taiwan's people favor holding on to the status quo and putting off unification. The status quo, as they see it, includes efforts to conduct foreign relations and join international organizations, which stoke China's fury...
...introduced a few years later in The Glass Menagerie. The earlier play is something of a mess--more than three hours long, with too many characters and subplots, overwrought melodramatics and snippets of dialogue that sound like, well, bad Tennessee Williams (Girl to Guy: "Why don't you ever open the door you're hiding behind?"). But in Nunn's taut, forceful staging, the work is more than a footnote for Williams scholars; it's an evening of crude but often astonishing power...