Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although the new fiscal year actually started Friday, the final negotiations on how to budget for it won't take place for weeks. Clinton has already promised to veto some of the Republicans' proposals; most of the rest is mired in some serious GOP infighting. In a particularly poignant example Thursday, a $2 billion cut in foreign aid favored by the party's fiscal hawks (for the money) and neo-isolationists (for the principle) was dragged down by a third GOP faction that wanted to tack on anti-abortion provisions. While Clinton stands back and drawls about "sitting down...
...course, given the sensibilities of most Harvard students, you probably wouldn't do anything of the sort. Like me, you would quickly realize that you will never pursue that hidden passion in any serious manner. Like me, you will realize that CityStep is not in your future. And now, you will be at a crossroads, a fork in your life at which you have a very important decision to make. Will you stifle your dream? Or will you find some other, less time-consuming way to reach self-fulfillment...
Perry says she believes Johnston's "serious devotion to teaching and exemplary teaching record" will continue to be invaluable assets to his students...
Both Weicker and Trump suffer from similar problems, the former with no apparent base of support and the latter alienating everyone except the extremely rich. It's no wonder this hodge-podge party of political outcasts and mavericks is suffering from a serious identity crisis...
Environmental Protection Agency chief CAROL BROWNER is in for an angry letter from some Congressmen this week. At issue: "serious, perhaps even illegal" behavior on the part of EPA senior scientist ALAN RUBIN, author of the 503 Sludge Rule, which declared municipal wastes safe for spreading in forests and farmlands...