Word: shriller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usually left-leaning New York Times seconded that emotion in its editorial "The Abuse of Privilege, Again," which accuses Clinton of selfishly putting his presidency before the presidency. (William Safire had opened the week on an even shriller anti-executive-privilege note, declaring in Monday's Times that "if Clinton can get away with this, any future President would be able to get away with anything...
...subpoena power. The West Wing is already consumed with responding to questions and document requests from Republican committees investigating Clinton's operation. The risk is that Clinton will go from the Permanent Campaign to the Permanent Cross Examination without passing through Governing. The atmosphere surrounding these probes could grow shriller if, as some predict, the leadership of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee probing the travel-office affair and the fbi-file flap passes from retiring Representative Bill Clinger of Pennsylvania to the more volatile Representative Dan Burton of Indiana. Overseeing Senate probes will be Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson...
...SEEING IT: Shucks, there's something down-home and friendly about that good ole boy Lamar. Alexander is in desperate need of breaking through the clutter. The ad is designed to feature him as the easy-listening alternative to his shriller, more dour rivals. He's banking on his likability, trusting that voters have forgotten that he was the first Republican to go negative months ago. Another problem: his schoolteacherish diction seems designed to appeal to fifth-graders, and they can't vote in primaries...
Helping to push it down is Microsoft's operating system, Windows 95. While Apple fans have been deriding Windows 95 as the technological equivalent of Apple's 1989 operating system, the criticism sounds shriller and shriller. That is because the vast majority of software developers write programs for the Windows market first. Mac versions come later, if at all. "The problem is, you walk into a store with someone and try to convince them to buy a Mac, and there's not enough compelling software to make you want to say, 'Boy, I'm sure glad I have...
...hunting." A large number of those mainstream folks are now ex-members. Currently, four of every 10 members drop out when it comes time to renew their $35 annual membership. "All the smaller voices like mine," says hunter Ray Guzman, "aren't being heard." Speaking with a louder, shriller voice clearly works within the n.r.a. The question is whether America's other citizens, including responsible gun owners, will make themselves heard as well...