Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...philosophical inches of agreeing to roughly this much in spending cuts, enough to balance the budget over seven years. Why are Republicans now exaggerating these differences, letting go a Big Deal, which would by any measure be a huge achievement? Some blame the freshmen, who are said to prefer no deal to a "bad" deal. Yet one freshman admits their phalanx is in disarray, anxious over tough Medicare votes they've cast with nothing as yet to show for them. They huddled last Saturday to ponder which outcome best serves their principles--and politics. Centrists in both parties kept...
...MANY NEW LOCKS, ANTI-AUTO-THEFT devices and increased insurance premiums are we to endure while we are winning "the war on crime''? I fear the law and order of today, as well as our so-called justice system. I would prefer justice and punishment a la Singapore. JOACHIM H. BARZ Mesa, Arizona...
THERE IS NOTHING TRASHY, FLASHY OR degrading about Waiting to Exhale. If there were, black women around the country would have something other than praises to sing about it. Considering how far we've come as a people, I'd prefer on occasion seeing my own kind being "trashy,'' being true, being human, to never seeing myself at all. CYMANTHA M. GUEST Denver...
...United States and not to the special interests." TIME's Laurence Barrett says that Perot probably won't make a decision on who will get his party's nomination until April or May: "Regardless of what he says right now, Ross Perot may yet run. Ideally, he would prefer to get an established political leader, such as former Oklahoma Governor David Boren to fill that spot. We won't know Perot's strategy until late spring or early summer...
...which I've mentioned. But what I most want to convey is that to accomplish the second goal of this Council--relevance--we need you. It is my belief, and that of many on the Council, that informing you of our efforts is not enough. I'd much prefer an expansion of real dialogue between you and your student government...