Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pass the Senate. Instead Congress would try to produce a "less bureaucratic" plan. Universal coverage would still be the goal, but it would have to be phased in very slowly. With less than three months before congressional elections, Clinton had little choice but to concede. Republicans are expected to slice deeply into the Democratic majorities in both houses, meaning the odds will only grow longer for Clinton if he fails to get legislation this year...
...interview with TIME last week, Woolsey vowed to shrink intelligence spending "prudently," but complained that Congress has doubled the Administration's proposed cuts, from $7 billion to $14 billion, through 1997. During the 1990s, the cuts will slice 1 of every 4 positions from the U.S. intelligence payroll. "The intelligence community and the CIA will be -- by the end of the decade -- down to about the size it was in the Carter Administration," Woolsey says. The man who ran the agency back then, however, doesn't see that as a problem. "I don't think we were shorthanded...
...prince has come -- Saudi royal buys big slice of struggling park...
Almost lost in the furor was the play itself, an unflaggingly witty and often moving slice of life among the young, hip and artsy in Calgary, Canada. A gay painter (Michael J. Blankenship), blocked in his work, tries to jolt himself by taking a job as a waiter. To help the young couple who own the restaurant, he induces his closest female friend, a beguilingly bitchy columnist, to tout it in print. The place thrives. So does passion between the painter and the young husband (Damian Baldet, a conservatory student giving a captivating and confidently professional performance...
...points of light" that answer his call for volunteerism from those old days. "It's a different kind of thing that you do here," he declares. "Make a life a little better. It isn't going to be done just by government." His 13 grandchildren claim a large slice of him. "Doro ((daughter Dorothy Koch)) brought down her Bobby ((10 months)) the other day. I was down on the floor crawling around and watching him follow me. A total joy. I mean it." So is the time he spends with his quiet 18-year-old grandson, George...