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Word: stickier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laser beam" on the economy, Clinton was sidetracked for five days by a once obscure campaign promise to lift the nearly 50-year-old ban on gays in the military. No sooner had Clinton emerged from the embarrassing miscalculation about Zoe Baird than he found himself in an even stickier political quagmire. After promising in his Inaugural Address to end an era of "deadlock and drift," Clinton was suddenly at war with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as members of his own party in Congress. Worse yet, the spectacle of Clinton clinging so resolutely to his gay-rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obstacle Course | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...STRAUSS IS not happy in his work. His former Washington law partners believe that a weary and frustrated Strauss will be back with them by year's end. But he won't drop the position until after November to avoid seeming disloyal to President Bush. On an even stickier point: it would look bad for him, as former Democratic National Chairman, to jump ship from the Bush Administration and show up helping the Democrats in the fall. So Strauss will have to stay put for now and be weary and frustrated for just a bit longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

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