Word: quest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grateful, and emboldened. With a budget victory notched in their belts, Clinton and his advisers began plotting an aggressive defense strategy aimed at punishing Republicans for their quest to impeach him by turning their proceedings into an even more unpopular spectacle. Instead of cutting a deal in the House that would head off impeachment, Clinton's team is choreographing a prolonged partisan fight with Republicans over virtually every aspect of the inquiry. The opening battle will come this Wednesday when the President's legal team meets for the first time with House Judiciary Committee lawyers. Cooperation...
...hairdo for their plastic princess. Mattel's latest offering, Detective Barbie ($35), promises something different: players must solve a kidnapping and recover the missing loot. Set in a colorful carnival setting, Detective Barbie is fun to play and almost seems daring--until the girls learn that Barbie's real quest is to find Ken. Nothing new there...
Walker warned women of European descent in the audience that they must overcome a particular burden in their quest for sexual freedom...
...tales rarely have access to the lovers they want, but Is This Desire? lends the trope a new layer of richness. Surely we should not ignore that Angelene both scans and rhymes with Polly Jean, and that an album whose title is a question must necessarily begin as a quest. After all, it is not the lover (who may, in fact, be imaginary) but the miles to be traveled that arrests Angelene's greatest attention. PJ Harvey expresses lament like no one's business, but like the harlots and hangers-on she portrays, she never gives...
...Dylan won't be the only hand laid off from Maggie's farm -- unless the government steps in, which is why Thursday's budget deal included $6 billion in farm aid. For the GOP, agreeing to the bailout meant suspending their quest to slash federal farm subsidies. "Republicans would have been hard-pressed to cut back on government spending to farmers in a year when the agricultural community has been badly hit by the Asian crisis and falling commodity prices," says TIME's senior business reporter Bernard Baumohl. The bad news, however, is that with U.S. agriculture heavily reliant...