Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great challenge for the Democrats, still reeling from their drubbing at the polls, is to keep their footing as the G.O.P. pulls the rug out from under them. Clinton's handling of the first major surprise to be sprung by soon-to- be House Speaker Newt Gingrich was anything but surefooted. Right after the election, Gingrich declared that in the next session of Congress, House Republicans plan to introduce a constitutional amendment to permit school prayer, an item that didn't appear in the G.O.P.'s "Contract with America." When reporters asked Clinton about it in Jakarta, where...
Tell that to Rachel, 19, an Irish au pair who felt like a slave while working for a family in Manhattan. Rachel found herself cleaning out the refrigerator, washing Venetian blinds, even scrubbing old stains from the living room rug. Those specialty services were layered on top of her daily responsibilities: minding the family's three children, washing the dishes, vacuuming. Moreover, Rachel says because there was never enough to eat in the house, she shelled out about $35 each week to keep herself and the children adequately fed. Rachel hung on eight months, then bolted. "I finally realized...
Another dorm crew worker, John J. Abbott '96, said it is ironic that although first-years often try things their parents would object to, students ultimately focus on appearances. "The thing they're concerned about is the clean rug," Abbott said. "Forget the tattoo or the boyfriend...
...visible has McCloskey become on this issue that when the Bosnian desk officer at the State Department resigned, he immediately joined McCloskey's office. In a city whose concern is often to sweep Bosnia under the rug (or into the grave), McCloskey has become the nexus of opposition, a moral point of light...
...senior, Cole led a group of Dalton students who traveled to Harvard's Model United Nations conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston. Once there, Dalton students burned a rug in one room. Sheraton personnel were "furious," according to Gumport...