Word: recession
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that the scandal-trained media had ignored the story before. It was July 4 week, with its congressional recess and all-around dearth of news, that marked the Condit tale's ascendancy into the tier just below Monica and O.J. and Jon-Benet. But there was still more unsaid than said, some restraint in the airwaves. Condit's leaked admission was the cutting of the leash...
...bill isn't finished this week, majority leader Tom Daschle has threatened, he will keep the Senate in session through the July 4 recess. But Lott wants to string out the debate so HMO and insurance groups can get more attack ads on the air and G.O.P. Senators will have more time to round up votes for their poison-pill amendments. The American Association of Health Plans, for instance, has budgeted up to $5 million this year to attack the Kennedy bill, and is running a TV spot featuring a small-business owner in Texas who frets that the bill...
...left the longer it hangs out there," worries a House Republican leadership aide. "We might as well do it and get it over with." Hastert is now mulling whether to bring up the bill as soon as he can after congressmen get back from their July 4th recess...
...autumn of his years. Jackson may well argue that he simply could not contain himself; his rage at the disingenuousness and the arrogance spewing forth from the Microsoft bench day after day was as ill-disguised inside the courtroom as out - more than once he called a recess, red-faced and practically spitting, to compose himself...
...first new business to come up after the Memorial Day recess, Daschle vows, will be the patient's bill of rights--not the version Bush touted as a compromise, but the one Daschle wants, which gives patients vastly greater leeway to sue their HMOs. After the Senate passed the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform bill in April, Lott refused to send it to the House. Daschle told TIME, "I'll hand-deliver it if I have...