Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were in McDougal's office at Madison when Bill Clinton called. McDougal's secretary put him on the speaker phone. The Governor sounded upset, wanting to know what was going on with Whitewater. Despite the venture's worsening financial straits, Jim tried to reassure him: "I've got my plate full, and I know you do too," he began. Clinton interrupted...
...McDougals and Clintons often dropped by each other's houses or bumped into each other at the Black-Eyed Pea, a blue-plate restaurant featuring Southern food located just minutes from each of their homes. McDougal and Susan would sometimes mention their successful real estate operations; Susan had even obtained a real estate license and was working as a broker. The Clintons, by contrast, complained that they could barely make ends meet. But at least Clinton's small land investment worked out well. In 1978, just as Clinton was starting to mount his campaign for Governor, McDougal was able...
...reason, scientists say, is that there is no controversy, except among Bible literalists. It's true that evolution is "just a theory." So is Einstein's theory of relativity, the theory of plate tectonics and the theory of subatomic particles. Yet no one argues that teachers should present alternatives to these ideas, for the simple reason that no good alternatives exist. All these theories have unanswered questions, and any of them might someday be overturned by a new idea that explains the facts better. But at the moment, no other is even close...
...OSVALDO FERNANDEZ AND LIVAN Hernandez, the distance between Cuba and the U.S. is not the 75 miles of the Caribbean, and not the almost 40 years of bitter and sometimes deadly conflict. It is the 60 ft. 6 in. between the rubber and the plate...
...sure, Buchanan's "anti-institutional" demagoguery represents a break from the Republican boiler plate of recent years in three ways. First, Buchanan targets the institutions of both Washington and Wall Street, whereas earlier Republican demagoguery restricted itself to attacking Washington. But you can't expect populism, once unleashed, to forever avoid its traditional (and, to many minds, logically more compelling) target. Second, Buchanan has turned up the heat. His blame game is more pointed and angry. But if you've been doing your best to keep popular resentments at a high simmer, your indignation is suspect when someone decides...