Word: partiality
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LAST APRIL, ROGER CLINTON, WHO IS PARtial to motley Caribbean drawstring pants, squirmed into a tuxedo and showed up at the Regent Beverly Wilshire hotel for a fancy fund raiser honoring his brother Bill. It was, in a way, a coming-out party for Roger. He was seated at the head table, and he led his band, called Politics, before some of Hollywood's established entertainers. But then it came time for Bill to speak. He told the story of a man he had met in Northern California who had supported him because he was out of a job, living...
Bush's closing flurry will bequeath Clinton quite as much new business as it removes from the agenda -- maybe more. Even if a partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Somalia starts by Jan. 20, as Pentagon officials still hope, it will be up to Clinton to determine when and how the rest can be pulled out without letting Somalia sink back into the starvation, looting and clan warfare that the American and other Western soldiers were sent to relieve...
...simultaneously support universal health care and employer-based funding, you have to favor a government-run, tax-supported default fund--a large-scale Medicare--for the unemployed and those whose bosses choose to pay rather than to play. One proposal even suggests taxes upon private health benefits to provide partial funding for the creation of this Medicare-plus...
...talks more about peace thanYitzhak Shamir did. But he talks about a partial withdrawal. If he sticks to this logic, there will not be peace, because we cannot give up our land. If he does not agree to complete withdrawal from the Golan, I believe he will lose the support of the Israeli political parties that demand it. There are even rabbis, including the Chief Rabbi, who have said that the Golan is not Israel's land...
Chase says that the new compensation laws, which give schools like Brockton High a partial reimbursement for the money it loses to Avon, are far too expensive, and still does not make significant reforms...