Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least as much for the country as Reagan did, or more. Critics of Clinton will undoubtedly say that a President with flexible beliefs, who once polled voters to decide where he should go on vacation, deserves history's inattention. Which is why with the end of his presidency in sight and the realization that a lame duck's influence drops precipitously after his sixth year, Clinton and his advisers are feeling the shadow of Reagan and urgently pondering the question, What is Clintonism? "We've been out there moving the ship in a very good direction, but we haven...
...will future editions assess his eight years in office? He is already so sensitive to the question and what it implies, aides say, that the mere sight of the word legacy in print is enough to trigger an eruption of the famous Clinton temper. He knows well that, as historian Michael Beschloss notes, "most Presidents are really not in the heroic mode." To be one of the greats requires surmounting a crisis on the scale of the Civil War or the Great Depression, or having ideas strong enough to change the way an entire nation thinks...
...witness this week. Their clash of faiths is mostly symbolic; Pope and President will meet only briefly during John Paul II's emphatically "pastoral" visit to his Cuban flock. The Pope will be center stage, watched by millions on global television, while Fidel will be largely out of sight, watching it all intently from behind the closed door of his Havana office. Who will emerge triumphant...
...every case the cells' telomeres lengthened instead of shortening, while the cells stayed healthy and continued to divide. "When we submitted the paper, we were at 20 generations past the usual limit," says Jerry Shay, a cell biologist at Southwestern. "Now we're at 40, with no end in sight...
Lawmakers were treated to $4.6 million worth of goodies in 1996, according to an Associated Press survey. But there must be a twinge of guilt, even among the bitterly partisan, as they sight-see in London or scuba dive in the Pacific or tee up next to someone who wants their vote. Espy, who may have learned about ethics when he was in Congress, readies for a trial that could send him to jail...