Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After bandying about the idea for weeks, President Clinton finally proposed a specific increase in the minimum wage: 90¢ over the next two years, to $5.15. The proposal, if not already moot, is certain to ignite a major fight with congressional Republicans. A spat is also sure to erupt when the President formally unveils his $1.6 trillion budget this week. While promising to eliminate or consolidate hundreds of programs and slash $144 billion in spending over the next five years, the President's plans do not cut deeply enough to balance the budget by 2002, which Republicans vow they will...
...might show Simpson was a violently jealous and abusive husband. The judge handed the defense one small win, though, allowing it to introduce some evidence regarding the alleged racist attitudes of a key detective. The mostly negative developments for the defense capped a week in which an embarrassing ego spat between two of its usually media-savvy lawyers, Robert Shapiro and F. Lee Bailey, became public...
...part, Murdoch has vital interests at stake in Washington -- not the $ least of which is a spat with NBC, a rival of the mogul's Fox network. NBC has complained to government regulators that Murdoch's control of Fox, which is owned by his Australia-based company, violates rules on foreign ownership of TV stations. Padden told TIME he was the one who raised the issue with Gingrich: "Right at the end, I interjected that NBC was trashing us all over Capitol Hill, and it was just sour grapes because we were hurting them in the marketplace...
...Bills have only lost two games in a row once this year, and they simply do not lose AFC games that matter. The Bills, until dead, buried and spat upon are the team to beat in the AFC. Apolgies to the Dolphins, Dan Shula and his golf cart, but its the truth...
...announced his resignation. That set the stage for removing the final obstacle to the exiled President's return: actually getting Cedras out of the country. After months of dramatic posturing about his obligation to defend his nation, the general spent his final hours mired in a real estate spat over how much the U.S. would compensate him for the property he was leaving behind...