Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most delinquent donors to the United Nations, in part because of opposition within the Congress. This past June, the Senate finally approved almost $1 billion for arrears to the United Nations. While this is an important step to reestablish our credibility within the United Nations, it is still short of the almost $1.5 billion that the UN claims the US owes...
With less than 30 seconds to go, Menick broke two tackles to bring the ball to the one-yard line, stretching his arms out and falling just short of winning the game himself...
...Senate's action seemed almost cavalier. Debate over the treaty was short and, at times, crassly partisan. (Even G.O.P. arms-control expert Brent Scowcroft called it "pathetic.") And the vote came just a day after relations between India and Pakistan were further soured by the Islamabad coup...
...Mandernach, as Joe's freshman-year academic lab instructor, saw Joe the way his other teachers did--angry, ready to fight even at the slightest challenge, and irresponsible. "He had a small-man problem," says Mandernach. Joe weighed only 80 lbs. in his freshman year, and even now, with short brown hair, smooth face and dimples, he looks more like a freshman than a senior. "Joey's such a sweet kid," says his mother Debbie Deimeke, who divorced Joe's father when Joe was six, "but inside he's got all this pent-up anger...
...presidential candidates to tip their hands on the issue. Even as the dust was still settling after a day of emotional arguments, senators approved Rick Santorum's (R-Pa.) measure calling for a ban on certain kinds of late-term abortions. The 63-34 margin was only four votes short of the majority needed to override Clinton's promised veto. Before abortion-rights proponents had a chance to process that close call, the Senate raised the stakes with another, purely symbolic vote. By a startling 51-47 margin, the Senate went on the record in support of Roe v. Wade...