Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Number of officials President Clinton has appointed during a recess without Senate approval, including Ambassador James Hormel...
...President exercised a little-used constitutional provision allowing him to make immediate appointments while the Senate is in recess (Senators are now enjoying a 10-day Memorial Day break). His action puts Hormel in the job until the end of the next Senate session, which conveniently coincides with the end of the Clinton presidency. With Republicans currently in disarray over how to enact their budget- and tax-cutting agenda, reports TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, the President decided this could be an easy political pickup for him at little political cost -- and with solid appeal to some of his more...
When we were young, oh, those days were grand. We certainly do miss those good old days with recess and naptime. And now that we've grown up (okay, well, we can pretend), we have so much more to worry about: i.e., work, work, work. So even a trip to the movies seems to take up more brainpower than one would like. Well we've found something that plays like a movie but requires half the intellectual capacity, and it has all the laughs and drama one would ever want. Imagine stick figures on blind dates, skinny men stealing underwear...
When we were young, oh, those days were grand. We certainly do miss those good old days with recess and naptime. And now that we've grown up (okay, well, we can pretend), we have so much more to worry about: i.e., work, work, work. So even a trip to the movies seems to take up more brainpower than one would like. Well we've found something that plays like a movie but requires half the intellectual capacity, and it has all the laughs and drama one would ever want. Imagine stick figures on blind dates, skinny men stealing underwear...
...showing kids a daily TV newscast filled with commercials. Now some companies are allowed into schools to do their market research. Noggin, an interactive TV network created by Nickelodeon and the Children's Television Network, meets with more than 300 students at a New Jersey school during lunch and recess for the express purpose of finding out "what sparks kids." To thank Watchung School for its cooperation, the network has "contributed" $7,000 worth of keyboards. Education Market Resources conducts focus groups in schools on behalf of Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Mattel and advertising giant Leo Burnett...