Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes to me that with the Clintons, like it or not--and I do not, much--we are in the middle of a primal American saga and the important part is yet to come. Bill Clinton may be merely the prequel, the President of lesser moment--except, so to speak, as the horse she rode...
...Nuwaubians speak to the press on the record. Those who do are proud of the group. "You are here on the land," a Nuwaubian man said pointedly to a reporter in Tama-Re. "Do you see a cult or a compound? We are just people who have come together in love and peace." Still, the Nuwaubians, who now call themselves the Yamassee Native American Moors of the Creek Nation, are increasingly high profile in local politics. They have enrolled their children in public schools, registered to vote and joined local branches of civil rights organizations en masse. About...
...ever undertaken in the U.S. Native Americans are usually cast as p.r. decor during campaigns like this: the sad, silent Indians lamenting pollution on TV spots. But this time, Cypress is determined to "do something a lot of politicians and environmental groups don't always like Indians to do: speak." And win lawsuits. The tiny tribe has seized a leading role in the Everglades restoration by outmaneuvering some of Florida's and Washington's strongest lobbies in a legal campaign to help set tougher water-quality standards and break bureaucratic logjams...
...member of Congress I actuallyrespect," said one independent voter, Eric N. Wittof Littleton, who heard McCain speak in Franconia."He's the only one I'd invite to dinner at myhome...
Library workers, who say they are kept largely separate from those on the construction site, said they are concerned that construction workers won't speak out against the cameras for fear of losing their jobs...