Word: suits
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...gravely serious man in glasses and a dark suit moves and speaks like the polished trial lawyer he once was. In the dank humidity of an auditorium in the Massachusetts State House, he makes his case insistently, weaving numbers and exposition into a seamless argument. In the future, he says, 60% of the U.S. Navy's shipyard work will involve nuclear-powered vessels. More than half the ships in for repair will be submarines; most of those will be Los Angeles- class attack submarines. "The most experienced shipyard in servicing Los Angeles subs," he declaims, "is the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard...
...past five years, the big sugar companies and vegetable growers of central Florida have fought the cleanup plan at every turn, filing about three dozen suits, appeals and challenges. (Browner used to refer to these actions ; as the "suit du jour.") The sugar growers complained that they had been turned into scapegoats and that the water-purity standards were unrealistically strict. A series of advertisements sponsored by U.S. Sugar argued that the restoration plan would spend half a billion dollars making swamp water cleaner than Evian bottled water...
...pedals to work on his purple Phoenix bicycle dressed in jeans and a T shirt, with an amiable bodyguard tailing behind on another bike. At the office, he changes to his dressed-up look: a suit with a black T shirt. He says he wouldn't be caught dead in a guayabera, the traditional tropical shirt favored by older Cubans...
With all these advisers tugging in different directions, the unsettling issue is where Clinton really stands. Is he getting back to where he once belonged, or reinventing himself to suit the polls? The sometimes disappointed director of the Democratic Leadership Council, Al From, believes that the President has been at times overwhelmed by issues not of his own making, like gays in the military, and that the past week's moderate moves demonstrate who the real Clinton is. Says From: "I'm delighted that Clinton is returning to the New Democrat fold...
...swim team at the University of Arkansas, which was cut under a plan to bring the school into compliance with Title IX, has already filed suit. They charge that the elimination of their program violated the equal protection under the law principle of the 14th Amendment...