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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...language also had that Clinton smell. Seven months of lies and the famous finger wag somehow amounted only to an admission that he "gave a false impression." As for defending answers as "legally accurate," most people think something is accurate or it is not. The idea of establishing some new zone of semitruth immediately brings to mind another phrase, the one that still haunts Al Gore: "no controlling legal authority." That too was one supplied by lawyers. This may have been a necessary way of avoiding admitting perjury, but the whole speech said the opposite: I was lying then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: I Misled People | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...City of Cambridge switched its water suppliers Monday, causing water discoloration in some parts of the city and noticeable changes in the taste and smell of tap water...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MWRA Now Serves Cambridge | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

Palm trees and pink stucco houses, flat blue cloudless skies and wide curving roads, the warm, salty smell of the ocean--home. Yes, I've returned to Southern California where the only bricks are adobe, where the weather is easy to predict and where the sights and sounds are comfortable and familiar...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, | Title: Rediscovering Home | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

...sarin or defectors in an after-action briefing he gave. Retired Captain Michael Rose, the Tailwind medic, told Pentagon investigators that he had no doubt the fumes he inhaled were tear gas, just like the whiffs he got in basic training. "It's like skunk," he said. "Once you smell it, you never forget." And, the Pentagon said, two ex-service members that the original report said had scouted the enemy camp before the attack were in fact never in Laos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely No Evidence | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...smell of rotting meat blood is a hell of a lot worse than rotting carrots sitting there," Weinstock said...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dudley Co-op Residents Squabble Over Serving Meat | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

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