Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Declaring somewhat plaintively that "the Constitution gives me relevance" and "the power of our ideas gives me relevance," President Clinton took advantage of the congressional recess to try to reclaim a place in the political sun. The President used a news conference to underline once again his opposition to the House-passed welfare bill ("too weak on work and too tough on children") and to vow to fight for the confirmation of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General. Over the weekend the President had a reminder of some older problems: he and Mrs. Clinton were interviewed under oath by Whitewater...
...breakfast and drive the older child to school; the younger came with her to Senate day care, where she had lunch with him and logged him out many days well before the 6 p.m. closing time. Her boss, Senator Orrin Hatch, testified that when the Senate was in recess, about half the year, he supported her going home early. A psychiatrist, chosen and seen by both parties, found that Greene, who had insisted that there be an au pair in the house even when he was unemployed for more than a year, was attentive to the children but that Prost...
...enough to eat. Linda Butcher, coordinator for health services in Oxnard elementary school district, a California agricultural community with about 14,000 students, says that before her schools applied for the School Breakfast Program, students would start feeling sick in the middle of the morning. Instead of playing during recess, they would lie down. "We would go to our school kitchen and beg for a little peanut-butter sandwich or milk to hold them over,'' says Butcher. "Often the older brother would come in and ask for something and then ask for something for his little brother and then...
...wrong I was for hurting you.'' The remorse seemed genuine--if integral to O.J.'s obsession with control--and so did the love. Both sentiments might have softened the mood if matters had ended there. Instead, it was the inconsolable grief of Denise Brown that the jury took into recess--and was to face again on Monday morning...
...courtroom explained why. Ron Goldman's father Frederic wept at the sight of his son's slashed and bloody corpse up on the 87-in. video monitor, while Nicole Brown Simpson's three sisters cried quietly; Simpson's mother Eunice could not look. When Ito at last called a recess, the Browns and the Goldmans clasped hands...