Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more liberal White House aides ended the week in rapture. Not only had they won this skirmish, but the disarray in the G.O.P. ranks made it less likely that there would ever be a balanced-budget deal, which would suit them just fine. In negotiations over the weekend, Clinton tried to placate Republicans by saying he would support a seven-year balanced budget put forward by Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. But one senior Clinton aide admitted that endorsing the plan was just "a p.r. game." Thus while the mere melodramas of locked doors, halted passports and shuttered museums came...
...worse," says Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace, an examination of poverty in the South Bronx. "There's a dramatic increase of children in foster care, and that's a very high-risk group of kids. We're not creating new jobs, and we're not improving education to suit poor people for the jobs that exist...
WASHINGTON, D.C. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the sexual harassment suit against President Clinton should not be delayed further. Clinton's lawyer in the suit, Robert Bennett, has argued that the case filed by former Arkansas employee Paula Jones should be put off until the President leaves office. Proceeding now, Bennett argues, would set a dangerous precedent, permitting lawsuits against a sitting President by people who may be primarily motivated by political considerations. TIME's Nina Burleigh notes politics is indeed at work in the Jones case. "Paula Jones first brought these allegations out at a political convention...
...give a deposition in a lawsuit concerning the 1985 slaying of an American aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton gave Arafat until January 12 to give his deposition, and said the PLO could be held liable if he does not cooperate in the suit. A New Jersey travel agency filed the lawsuit, which blames a PLO faction for the 3-day hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound elderly man, whom terrorists threw into the sea off Egypt. PLO lawyers said that an Arafat deposition was impossible...
...Simpson's onetime girlfriend, model Paula Barbieri, gave her deposition in the civil suit filed against the ex-football hero by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. According to an attorney present, Barbieri testified that she left Simpson a "Dear John" phone message on the morning of the murders...