Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something entirely different: he has inexhaustible patience for finding a consensus. "He gets everybody; he doesn't lose anybody," says West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller. "That's easier when you're in the minority, but for Democrats, it's never easy." Daschle's colleagues still question whether the quiet tenacity that has served him so well as an obstructionist will become a liability if the Democrats regain control of the Senate and are once again called upon to set the agenda, rather than thwart it. For now, though, even the Republicans acknowledge Daschle's effectiveness, at least in a backhanded...
Last year virtually every proposal to cut corporate welfare met a quiet death at the hands of the committees that pass on spending and tax legislation. What House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and his forces considered unjustifiable giveaways other Congressmen defended as vital to their districts. In the end, the 25 or so programs considered most egregious by critics from all sides--say, building logging roads for timber companies at government expense--saw their budgets nicked some $2.6 billion, or only 16%, says Stephen Moore, fiscal-policy director of the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute. And for all its denunciation...
Harvard is notorious for its stressed-out, driven students and the consequently quiet social scene. But is Harvard's reputation as a haven for the celibate justified...
...quiet land. Deep, delicately carved canyons twist through golden walls of sandstone. A tortoise hides in the shade of a Joshua tree. Listen closely and you can hear the sound of a stream trickling through the rocks, over polished pebbles, and into a pool of crystal water...
...this is what most folks think of as White Water," the brochure concludes over a photo of sun-dappled water and babbling falls. "Clean rippling water and stepping stones--but it's really so much more. More than a place to live, it's a way to live ... quiet, peaceful, serene, simple and honest. One weekend here and you'll never want to live anywhere else...