Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President is serious, it will not be enough for him to slip an ad for reform into his speeches. Among opponents of the bill are some of Clinton's strongest backers--and those on whom Al Gore will depend when he starts running for President the day after tomorrow. The teachers' unions, for example, contributed about $5 million last year to the Democratic cause. If Clinton is serious, he will need to persuade his allies that opposing reform is not in the nation's interests and to back off. If he is really serious, he may yield to Republican demands...
...return--it turns out that the most valuable scrap of information to have is a nine-digit number. That number is a ZIP code, one that tells the White House post office to pluck that letter from the 15,000 addressed to Bill Clinton every day and slip it directly under the President's door. The people who know the code are Clinton's oldest friends and earliest allies. Few of them followed him to Washington, and maybe that is why they are the people he trusts to have his interests at heart. They are his private epistolary brain trust...
...choreographed Baiul a number of times, said, "Watching her recently, I've been concerned that her lack of discipline would catch up with her. Her head has been turned by so many things since she's come to America." Says her Americanizing agent Carlisle: "This is an unfortunate slip in the process...
...lean in close, conspiratorially, Sonia Ho may just let slip a secret she keeps about her son David. She will speak in a hush, as if to elude some spy's eavesdropping from behind the potted palm. But she badly wants to divulge her information. Thus, slightly abashed but nonetheless proud, she will confide, "He's kind of a genius, you know. I'm not supposed to say that, but it's true...
...notoriously easy to slip through the cracks at Harvard. With a questionable advising system, large classes, weird entryways that seem built to isolate and schedules so busy that no one can even keep track of their own lives, let alone anyone else's, students have some reason to fear that they could become anonymous. But forget about slipping through the cracks for a moment. What if you were to jump into them...