Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave a sneak preview of his own health care plan, which reads a lot like President Clinton's. Expect a nail-biter tomorrow when the Senate Finance Committee votes on Moynihan's strategy. He'll push voluntary measures to have employers pay for medical insurance, but effectively make them pay ONLY after 5 years if too few Americans are covered. Key Republicans on the committee predict they'll successfully defeat the thing Wednesday, prompting TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson to speculate that Moynihan (with White House coaxing) has set up the GOP members to be the spoilers...
...display, say the vets, is tilted against the U.S., portraying it as an unfeeling aggressor, while paying an inordinate amount of attention to Japanese suffering. Too little is made of Tokyo's atrocities, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor or the recalcitrance of Japan's military leaders in the late stages of the war -- the catalyst for the deployment of atomic weapons. John T. Correll, editor in chief of Air Force Magazine, noted that in the first draft there were 49 photos of Japanese casualties, against only three photos of American casualties. By his count there were four pages...
...room went dark, as if a science genius was trying to sneak in and take the test for a friend. But no cunning activity had transpired. the pre-meds were held prisoner for two hours, with updates every half hour informing them that the power might not return and they might have to wait until the next day (or perhaps September) to take the dreaded test...
Lewis and a friend, Deborah E. Lipson '95, were waiting on line at the bar when they decided to try to sneak in through a side door, a first-year witness said...
...opportunity to hear the Truffaut rattle off dozens of maxims about love. Other shots try to make sense of the flawed plot; a sign in the middle of the city reads, "The dragnet is being drawn about Michel Poiccard!". It's not a great tactic for police trying to sneak up on a criminal, but a sure-fire way to let the audience know what's going...