Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...famous Clintonian phrase "it depends on what the meaning of is is" from the August session with the grand jury. "That single declaration," Schippers said, "reveals more about the character of the President than perhaps anything else in the record... Can you imagine dealing with such a person on any important matter...
...Sonny was under the influence of painkillers when he skied into the tree, even though the autopsy doesn't list that as the cause of death. She also left her fatherless children to run for Congress just weeks after Sonny died, which makes her something less than the ideal person to be the official G.O.P. hand wringer over what to tell the children...
Hamilton Hall is one of the most popular, with spacious, furnished singles and views of the landscaped Business School grounds on one side and the Charles River on the other. Students live in four-person suites with two-room singles and one shared full bath...
...language. This is not the case. Language at Home is in fact a complex dance of syntax and connotation. For example, a simple expression like "I see what you mean," when uttered by a local or tribal chieftain, may have a radically different meaning than when spoken by a person from a more developed area. In our native country, this phrase would ordinarily mean "I understand your ideas". If a local chief uses this phrase, however, it is more likely to translate as "Your ideas do not interest me. Go get me a Coke...
...Augusto Pinochet is staying put for now. Britain's House of Lords has ordered yet another hearing after overturning a lower court ruling that would have extradited the former Chilean dictator to Spain. Pinochet's lawyers had appealed the lower court's decision because the judge on the five-person panel who cast the deciding vote is affiliated with Amnesty International, one of the prime movers in the push to bring Pinochet to trial...