Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This answer helps explain the T shirt from Martha's Vineyard but stretches credulity when it comes to his giving her a copy of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, which he also happened to give Hillary when they were courting. As for Lewinsky's gifts to Clinton, many people shovel trinkets at the President, and the smart ones know the best way to get gifts to Clinton is through Currie. That still leaves unexplained whose idea it was for Monica to return the presents to Currie after Jones' lawyers subpoenaed them...
From the time he joined the White House three years ago, at a low point in relations between Clinton and the media, McCurry made it clear that he did not want scandal to be part of his portfolio. Through Whitewater and Donorgate, McCurry was able to shovel those questions to the counsel's office. But even while savvy, media-wise lawyers such as Mark Fabiani and his replacement Lanny Davis took the calls from investigative reporters, McCurry had to wage a vigorous internal campaign for openness. "What Mike McCurry has stood for is that if you give reporters...
...offer a $100,000 reward. That evidence, investigators say, includes explosives residue in the truck and in a storage shed Rudolph had rented, fibers from a blond wig like the one a witness had seen a man remove as he ran from the bombing scene, and a folding shovel with dirt believed to match the soil where the bomb had been buried beneath a flowerpot...
...dismantling that social contract have had to find cheaper ways to address the insecurity that voters express. Bill Clinton is a master at playing to people's fear of losing control. He offers cell phones to citizen patrols and television ratings for absent parents. As more and more corporations shovel workers into managed-care programs, Clinton unveils a new patient "bill of rights": "I think it's fair to say that almost every family feels some insecurity at the scope and pace of change in the world," he said. "There are so many people in this country that, because...
...GREEN BAY PACKERS The team is too good to be good--yet it won the Super Bowl. Owned by 1,915 locals who volunteer to shovel snow before games, the Pack has role models galore: all-handsome quarterback Brett Favre, who overcame an addiction to pain killers, and all-best defensive end Reggie White, a minister whose burned-down Kentucky church the folks of Green Bay chipped in to rebuild. This season Coach Mike Holmgren, with his Poppin Fresh face and Dad-knows-best style, led his team easily into the playoffs. The Pack seems set to face the 49ers...