Word: standly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early front runners are trying to define an acceptable zone of privacy, but they find themselves in a world in which the only rule is that there are no rules. Whether and how voters react to one's past may depend on how serious it was--a one-night stand or cartwheeling adulteries? a lot of pot or a little cocaine?--and just how long ago it was. And the process by which those episodes are dug up and publicized is now a free-for-all. The Year of Monica was driven forward by outsiders and scandal prospectors of every...
...adviser to Ohio Representative John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee and would-be President, says, "The public's definition of character has changed. They'd like the President to be an upstanding person. But what they really want to know is, What are your issues? What stand do you take...
...years that such a system would never work. That was then. Now it's the newest item in their lengthening list of conservative takeovers. Defense hawks have been maddeningly one-upped by Clinton's adoption of a snazzy constellation of space-based sensors and ground-based missiles that would stand guard over all 50 states, poised to destroy a handful of incoming missiles. In time-tested Star Wars practice, the President is expected to decide in June 2000 whether to deploy the system, even though tests on key components--such as the missile interceptor and the rocket it will ride...
...House managers, in the name of love for the law, have erupted into a volcano of hatred. That lynch mob doesn't stand for the compassionate American people the whole world knows. ALDO PUGIOTTO Lachine...
...have a passion, if you have a curiousity, it's not going to stop bothering you until go for it once. When I first started doing stand-up, I thought, "Okay, everybody in this room is going to be dead in a 100 years, and it's just ten minutes of my life, so why not?" So my advice would be to try...I travel so much, and I see thousand of people, and I realize not how meaningless I am, but that anything I decide to do is just for me. I want my friends and family to love...