Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government information on two pending Whitewater investigations to try to hinder the probes. As the deadline neared, the White House offered a compromise, agreeing to relinquish the notes under certain conditions. But a bitterly divided Senate committee voted 10 to 8 along party lines to reject the deal and seek enforcement of the subpoena. Soon afterward, the White House signaled that only one of the disputed conditions really mattered: other investigative bodies, as well as independent counsel Kenneth Starr, must agree that even if the notes were turned over, the White House could still assert attorney-client privilege with respect...
...cameras as he went on trial for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Although the 25-year-old law student freely admits to the murder, Judge Edmond Levy immediately granted the defense a recess until January 23 so the lawyers would have time to study the evidence, possibly to seek technical grounds for a plea of not guilty...
...council also defeated, reconsidered and then tabled for a later date a constitutional amendment that would have allowed non-council members to seek the presidency and vice presidency in the popular elections...
...list of things on which Clinton took a stand was Medicaid, the jointly funded, federal-state health program that serves 36 million Americans. The Administration renewed its call for a plan that would save $54 billion from the program over seven years, only one-third of the savings Republicans seek. But Clinton went further, saying if the G.O.P. kept insisting that the Federal Government retreat from the Medicaid business, the Republicans could forget about a budget agreement. "That would violate our values,'' Clinton declared. Steaming Republicans countered that Clinton's intransigence could "blow up'' the talks. All of which raised...
...doubt of Constantin Brancusi's status as a modernist master. He devoted a long life to distilling extremes of formal perfection from a narrow range of motifs. This perfection is never frozen: it always contains some organic character, an affinity to life and therefore to change. "I never seek what to make a pure or abstract form," Brancusi said. "Timelessness,'' "wholeness,'' "essence,'' "aliveness": such words inescapably recur in what has been written about him over the past 70 or 80 years. They are well-worn tokens, rubbed smooth by use, but you can't visit the Brancusi retrospective that...