Word: pad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months before he left for a golf-saturated vacation last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the President could be found outside almost daily, often for just a few minutes, lining up breaking putts-and working through some of the toughest issues he faces. "It's a think pad," George Stephanopoulos says of the green. "It's quiet, there are no phones, and he can use the game to distract part of his mind and let the other part do its work...
...seemed inconceivable back then that those two fighter pilots would someday be on the same flight crew. Yet when the space shuttle Atlantis roared off the pad at Cape Canaveral last week in America's 100th manned launch, the two men, Robert ("Hoot") Gibson and Anatoli Solovyev, along with four other U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin, were both on board. Their mission was a more ambitious reprise of the earlier Apollo-Soyuz flight: rendezvous and dock with the Russian space station Mir, orbiting 245 miles above the earth...
Some books, such as O.J.'s Legal Pad (Villard) -- which has sold about a quarter-million copies in the three weeks since its publication -- provide little more than good fun on the sidelines of the trial, but other efforts, far from being a gloss on events, may be altering their course. For instance, Resnick's book gave the prosecution insight into the former football star's possessiveness, but to the extent that Resnick was seen to be capitalizing on a tragedy, it also tainted her as a possible witness. A new book, Kato Kaelin: The Whole Truth, which...
...general, Freshman Caucus members tend to look down upon those council members who they see as trying mainly to pad their resumes and to admire those who stand apart from politics and focus their energies on making council events successful...
Dickerson states that the HRC did not pad the membership rolls in order to have a certain far-right slate elected in club elections last February. But when the HRC's membership list is inspected and a great number of members are found to be roommates, girlfriends, boyfriends and otherwise politically apathetic members, one has to wonder whether or not the HRC's elections were conducted in an upright manner. Moreover, when some of these roommates and dormmates are reputed to have claimed to have only paid half of club dues in order to vote, the integrity of the entire...