Word: recessiveness
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...raised the prospects of normalized international relations if Pyongyang abandoned its nuclear aspirations. But the North Koreans balked, insisting they needed a nuclear plant to produce electricity?a condition the U.S repeatedly said was a deal-breaker. With the two sides in a stalemate, China's Wu called a recess on August 7. Back in Washington, Hill vented his frustrations. "For a moment, I really thought I saw the top of the mountain there," he said in a speech to the Asia Society. "It got fogged in, eventually, but nonetheless we could see clearly where we were heading...
...Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., and Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, D-N.Y., said outside the hearing room during a recess that they thought Roberts had not been entirely forthcoming with the committee...
...dispensed handshakes, back pats and even a hug or two. But there was a visible reminder of the tensions between the United States and the world body: John R. Bolton, the biting critic of Turtle Bay bureaucracy who was installed by Bush as his U.N. ambassador during the congressional recess after the Senate did not act to confirm him, took a seat behind the president...
...only House member who might find some uncomfortable moments back home during this month's congressional recess. Some others whose alleged behavior has given constituents something to talk about...
APPOINTED. JOHN BOLTON, 56, controversial nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; by George W. Bush, during Congress's August recess, the timing of which allowed the President to install the caustic critic of the U.N. without congressional approval; in Washington. Democrats had blocked a confirmation vote for months amid allegations that the former State Department official had manipulated intelligence to suit his ideology, bullied subordinates and tried to reassign those who disagreed with him. Bush said the post was "too important to leave vacant any longer...