Word: part
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most shameful part of the vote is not that the wrong decision was made, but that it was made for the worst reason: partisanship. Realizing there weren't enough votes for ratification, President Clinton and many other Congressional Democrats asked Lott and the Republican leaders to take the treaty off the current Senate agenda as a way to delay the vote for further deliberation instead of killing it outright...
...takes a team-wide collapse to get outscored by 24 in a half, but now the problem has the potential to ruin the team's confidence as it enters the most important part of the season. Harvard has five Ivy games left, with the last three--Brown, Penn and Yale--being the toughest...
...Webern's Piano Variations are mirror variations: Everything reflects. So too, Morris suggests, does everything in Reagan's life. His famous words, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" are foreshadowed in his college days, when Reagan plays a part in Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo and speaks the lines, "This wall is actually a wall, a thing / Come up between us, shutting me away." One of the most jarring moments of Reagan's otherwise happy childhood is when he comes home one night to find his father passed out, drunk, on the snow of their front yard...
...percent of all students at the extension school now pay for their courses with credit cards. And although the school does pay a fee to offer the service to students, Gravell-Santos says the policy is particularly beneficial to the extension school students--many of whom work part time in order to take class and rely on credit to help finance their education...
...people spending their food money on lottery tickets," says Holmes. "The pro-lottery camp chafes at the idea of government protecting adults from risky behavior, and argues that the profits from state lotteries cover crucial programs like education without raising taxes." Of course, says Holmes, "the most ridiculous part of all this is that many of those churchgoers who voted against the lottery will head on down to Biloxi, Mississippi, this weekend for a little out-of-state gambling...