Word: standoff
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...politically charged standoff was the most dramatic but hardly the only Whitewater development last week. Earlier, D'Amato confronted Margaret Williams, Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, with discrepancies between her testimony and that of Robert Barnett, the Clintons' former personal lawyer. For example, Williams did not recall having arranged for Barnett to come to the White House on July 27, 1993, to examine files taken from the office of former deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, who had committed suicide seven days earlier. But Barnett told Senators that Williams personally had set up his visit...
...Federal Government shut down on Tuesday after President Clinton vetoed stopgap spending-and-borrowing legislation enacted by Congress. Clinton objected because Republicans had ladened the measures with restrictions intended to force him into accepting the huge spending cuts at the heart of their balanced-budget plan. The standoff continued throughout the week, overshadowing all but final congressional passage of the budget plan itself, which the President called "dead on arrival...
...Cornell-Brown standoff means that Harvard can forget about its early season tie with Cornell and focus on one game--against Brown--for the title...
Although there have been several meetings between club officials and the graduate board to try and work out a compromise to the standoff over the proposed new rules, talks are currently stalled...
...next 10 years, partly in reduced cost of living adjustments to people who collect entitlement checks. Moynihan's idea, in various forms, has long been bandied about by economists. But now it has caught the attention of both Democrats and Republicans. Both sides are heading for the Great Standoff of 1995 over the budget, with Republicans threatening to block an increase in the federal debt ceiling if the White House doesn't agree to erase the deficit in seven years. At that point, says Moynihan, "the White House is going to say, What can we do that the Democrats will...