Word: shredding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...February. "We have to do a better job of screening people who come in and out of here," the President said. But Clinton noted with pride that so far the multiplying probes of the Administration "have spent $30 million or something, and there's not a single solitary shred of evidence of any wrongdoing on my part." Said he: "I feel good about...
...home, as he insisted last week. Barbieri is expected also to say that Simpson called her from the Bronco the day of the murders and that he was distressed by her attempts to break off their relationship. Placing Simpson in the Bronco between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. would shred his alibi that he was at home when the killings occurred...
Barnicle claims that the students Baker offended are "rude, spoiled elitists." If Barbicle had the slightest shred of common sense, he'd realize that students who spend their weekend hours working probably don't fit the stereotype of filthy rich debutantes whose ancestors all attended Harvard. His column is yet another example of the irate and irrational Harvard-bashing which is all too popular in the local press. Barnicle also seems to have based his column solely on Baker's account of the incident. Even lowly reporters and columnists at The Crimson know better than to go to press with...
...aside the ethics crises nipping at the heels of both the President and the Speaker of the House, plus the possibility of an imminent recession--each of which in its own right would be enough to shred this idyllic scenario. The division between a Democratic President and a Republican Congress has been, since the current party system began in the 1850s, the country's least productive political arrangement. Splits may work for champagne, or maybe bananas, but they often don't make for good government in Washington...
...promise was not enough to convince skeptics, even on traditionally Republican Wall Street. Says Stephen Roach, chief economist for Morgan Stanley: "There is not one shred of credible evidence on how Dole will pay for his plan. Fully 65% of the revenue breaks are to be financed by nothing more than wishful thinking. This is as vague as it gets...