Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will veto the legislation if it reaches the Oval Office. "I am disappointed that Republicans are trying to use the words 'welfare reform' as cover to advance a budget plan that is at odds with America's values," Clinton said. The bill includes provisions that scale back food stamp benefits and reduce aid to immigrants, disabled children, drug addicts and alcoholics. The bill has been estimated to save the government $58 billion over seven years...
...Between its first appearance and the latest, however, something seemingly bigger than a Depression (or a world war or a revolution in social mores) has arisen to obstruct its revival: a movie. In 1938 George Cukor directed Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in the leads, and they placed their stamp on the roles--indelibly...
...automatic teller machine, the U.S. Postal Service stamp machine, the coin-operated copy machine, the credit-card-operated fax machine, the Harvard Student Agencies film developing drop-off box, the sweet shop's candy and the newsstand's periodicals have not yet arrived, but should be in place within the next few weeks, according to Loker officials...
VOINOVICH AND OTHERS WOULD have Dole attempt to move the party toward his own brand of pragmatic conservatism. They pine for the old Dole, the Dole who joined with George McGovern to start the food-stamp program; the Dole who pushed for aids-research funds; the Dole who worked with Hubert Humphrey to turn the school-lunch program into a federal entitlement; the Dole who keeps a prayer celebrating tolerance on his desk...
...college dorm during finals week, with diplomats gathering on the fly to thrash out issues big and small. At the center of it all was Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans, Richard Holbrooke, who acted as a sort of diplomatic cruise director, dispatching experts to float proposals, stamp out disagreements and buttonhole delegates. "It's like a living, breathing, international diplomatic biosphere," gushed State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns...