Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century later, Martin Luther King called upon Lincoln's memory, saying, "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation." King too relied upon America's shared memory, using Americans' knowledge of their nation's ideals to shame them into action. What happens to a nation, though, when neglect and apathy have severed those "mystic chords...
Deputy chief of staff John Podesta assembled the team, including former Clinton Hill lobbyists Howard Paster and Pat Griffin, as well as Tommy Boggs, the king of Washington lobbyists. In regular contact with lawmakers and their top staffs, members of the President's shadow lobbying enterprise are in a good position to test Clinton's fortunes. Separately, businessman Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's close friend and principal fund raiser, is known to have phoned hundreds of Democratic financial supporters to rally support for the President. They, in turn, are calling in their support to Democratic lawmakers. And it would be hard...
...been close to the single digits for months, while the President, riding a muscular market and peaceable times, seemed invulnerable to redefinition no matter how lurid the rumors of his personal conduct. But that was a judgment made about a public man: Starr has now introduced his wanton private shadow, and asks us to reckon with both. There is Clinton, servicing a major donor on the phone as Monica lurks nearby. There he is plotting chance encounters in the hall so he and Monica could slip into the private study, while indirectly warning the men who guard him that indiscretion...
With the approaching millennium and the chance to banish the shadow of colonialism from modern Africa, Mwangi is also interested in hearing Mandela's views on South Africa's possible leadership role for the entire continent...
...This election proves that beyond a shadow of adoubt, the Eighth Congressional District stillbelongs to the regular working people of America,"he said...