Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, when many Japanese deserted Tokyo to pray at the graves of their ancestors--an annual August festival known as O-bon--subway commuters were treated to a rare opportunity: enough elbowroom to actually open their morning newspapers. That was a mixed blessing, given that the news was so grim. Amid the usual litany of ominous rumblings about the sagging yen and anemic economy were reports that the Long Term Credit Bank, Japan's 10th largest financial institution--which is to say, bigger than almost any U.S. bank--was in imminent danger of collapse. The bank's "bottomless" stock...
Clinton's team savored a rare legal victory over Starr when it was revealed last week that Starr and his aides may have violated federal rules by leaking grand jury testimony and could possibly be fined or held in contempt. It has always been a possible route for Clinton to seize on the leak investigation as another reason not to cooperate. But that is a move Clinton can save for later. For now, he is still playing Starr's game, which means an unprecedented rendezvous with the grand jury next week...
...Melissa Conley, who drove Johnson home after the delivery, says she remembers Johnson asking the doctor discharging her what blood type Callie had. "The doctor says it was not her type, that Callie had O-negative, which is rare," Conley says. "Then Paula said, 'She must have her father's,' and got real quiet...
...Martin, the son of a Pittsburgh steelworker, gained the role of Lewinsky's indispensable man after engineering an even greater escape. In February, when Lewis was forced to testify before the grand jury and left the courthouse in anguish, Martin made a rare public appearance to protest. His confidential negotiations proved even more effective, private lawyers in the case tell TIME. Warning prosecutors that if Lewis were recalled, she would criticize them for cruelty and reignite a public backlash from her first appearance, Martin is said to have suggested a compromise: allow her to testify in a deposition outside...
...Starr may indeed have more than that. But in private, White House staffers have reserved their unequivocal denials for the subornation issue -- a rare degree of confidence for that demoralized bunch -- and a sign that perhaps, after all those subpoenas, Ken Starr may not have enough to beat out the power of one Clinton confessional...