Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's record-setting heat in Washington. Fortunately, the Capitol shuts down this week for summer recess. Some pols have already taken off; a few will require hiking boots, others water shoes, and at least one might want to rewatch Cabaret in preparation. We hope all remember to leave the thong bathing suits at home...
...negotions by the Joint Committee on Taxation--made up of members of the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee--the Congress narrowly approved a final version of the bill yesterday. Republican leaders plan on sending the legislation to President Clinton when they return from summer recess in September...
...Republicans insist it can; the Democrats doubt it. Who?s right depends on continued economic good times and the fiscal discipline of future governments -? neither one of which you ought to be betting the farm on -? and now both sides are headed home for a one-month recess to make their case. TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says each side will be preaching to the choir. "Democrats will make the argument that?s been successful with their base thus far -- Clinton is saving Medicare and paying down the debt, and Republicans are merely helping the rich." They...
...kids themselves. "It's my life," says Aidan Wolfe, 10, of Portland, Ore., who plays in a recreational league. "I love soccer. If my parents told me I couldn't play anymore, I'd be devastated." During the school year, hockey player Jason George wedges homework into recess and lunch breaks to make the grueling Little Caps schedule, but, he says, "if that's what it takes for me to be good at hockey, I'll do whatever I have to do." His sister Sara, 9, also loves travel hockey because, on the road trips, "I get to spend...
...Number of recess appointments made by Ronald Reagan...