Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, despite the impassioned pleas in Sullivan Chamber in City Hall, some concerns over political posturing arose.
Bill Clinton is in no hurry to clothe the emperor. The U.S. embargo on Cuba may be privately acknowledged as a cold war anachronism, but new measures to be announced by the White House Tuesday reflect a continued pandering to Cuban exile organizations in such electoral-prize states as Florida...
Bob Livingston had meant to provide an example. After making what he probably knew were two vain pleas -- one for the President to resign and one for the House to heal its divisions ?- the Speaker-elect of the House told Clinton that "I can only challenge you in such fashion...
Lawrence Walsh's probe of the Iran-contra allegations ratcheted up the debate about the statute because he spent so much time and money on the job. Walsh was the first independent counsel to conduct a wide-ranging and costly ($47 million) investigation. It resulted in seven guilty pleas and...
In the course of his investigation, Smaltz did gain 15 convictions or guilty pleas from individuals and companies, including Tyson Foods, which agreed to pony up $6 million for giving Espy things like two football play-off tickets, a couple of limo rides and a $1,200 scholarship for his...