Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vast majority of what we do is...making real differences in the lives of real people by enforcing the law," she said. "If the government is ceded the right to take one right from one person, then no rights are safe...
...read a story in the Washington Post reporting that a man named Andrew Carroll has been handing out cheap editions of The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, to motorists waiting in line at a District of Columbia vehicle-inspection station--a line in which, I think it's safe to assume, people must sometimes get the impression that the drawbridge is never going to go back down...
Calling himself a "common-sense conservative," Brady criticizes the size of the federal bureaucracy and the "coddling" criminal-justice system--safe positions in this solidly conservative district. He is an admirer of Jack Fields, the Republican who is stepping aside after 16 years of service to the Eighth. As a conservative, Brady also wants Texas' "sunset laws" brought to Washington, requiring federal agencies to "prove their worth" by a specified date or be terminated...
...record 14 Senators and 50 Representatives--short of the 1992 record of 65--decided not to run for re-election. Almost all were considered "safe"--expected by their party to win. Six of the newly open Senate seats are held by Republicans; 29 of the 50 House members leaving are Democrats. Though the exodus is bipartisan, the overall magnitude of potential realignment makes this year's battle for control of Congress more unpredictable than in most election years...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I think it is safe to say the new Congress has done its part, and will continue to do its part, in advancing the common-sense reform legislation of the Contract with America...