Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quiet, dignified committee chairman PETER RODINO left the House in 1988; now 89, he teaches law seminars at Seton Hall University in New Jersey...
...President and his party are so estranged that anything he did inspired them to complain. When he tried to argue his case, they told him to be quiet. And when he left them alone, with instructions to vote their conscience, he had somehow failed to make it easy. Complained a Democratic strategist on the Hill: "He could have said, 'I think this process is partisan and unfair, but it's inevitable, so go ahead and vote for it and let's get on with it.' But he didn't. Instead he said, 'Vote your conscience...
...what a cad a politician (with a family back in the district) can be in the big, bad city. Usually the epiphany occurs when she has passed the sell-by date and a new beauty queen begins answering constituent mail. She may be bitter, but she knows to keep quiet. For every Gennifer Flowers who publishes a book and gets a spot on Larry King, there are hundreds of underemployed women working the back office during the day and feeding the cat and watering the rhododendron at night...
...closest gay nightclubs to Shepard's college are a 1 1/2-hr. drive away and across the Colorado border. Still, Shepard was comfortable enough to join his school's gay organization, comfortable enough knowing that some people were aware of his sexual orientation and most suspected it. Perhaps, despite his quiet caution, he was too comfortable...
...that way. "Sharon's appointment means that a resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is imminent because he will give the agreement legitimacy on the Israeli side," says a close aide of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. With this in mind, Palestinian negotiators have been conducting a quiet dialogue with Sharon over the past year. Although they have disagreed with him, he has earned their respect, unlike Netanyahu, who is widely distrusted...