Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House Republicans announced the broad outlines of their bill two weeks ago, the party's leaders were scrambling to catch up with their own members. However late, their still-to-be-written bill was the tactical success they needed as lawmakers returned to face their constituents over the July recess. It put the party on record with an alternative to Clinton's bill while silencing more liberal proposals within the party's membership. It also set the formidable Clinton message machine off balance for a news cycle or two. Clinton senior adviser Rahm Emanuel was hailing it as "a pleasant...
...Naturally, the main hope of congressmen, who passed the bill 402-8 in the House and now 96-2 in the Senate, is that taxpaying voters won't notice until after November. "Politically, everybody wins," says Birnbaum. "This is something that everyone can take home for the August recess...
...inconsolable. "I loved the thought of Ginsburg asking for a recess so he could run out in the hall and consult Ted Koppel on the rules of criminal procedure...
While our younger brothers and sisters are lounging by the pool or even off at investment camp, Japanese high schoolers are still in school--and will be until July 20, when they receive a 40-day recess, their longest of the year. Students, dressed in uniforms, often travel to school seven days a week, preparing for the ultimate test of adolescence: university entrance examinations. While President Clinton has proposed making the "13th and 14th years of education as universal as high school" in America, Japanese students are fighting their way to a college education--enrolling in "crammer colleges" if necessary...
...Clinton appointees has said it will hear oral arguments in the matter starting June 26. Starr, who is seeking testimony from White House adviser Bruce Lindsey and three Secret Service employees, wanted the Supreme Court to skip over the appeals court and decide the matter before its summer recess. The court's refusal to hurry the process ensures that even if Starr wins the case, he will not be able to get testimony before the November election. Though he could still send Congress an interim report on his investigation before then, even House Republicans are hoping he won't. That...