Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been in doubt. That Clinton's lieutenants could prevent damaging defections by conservative Democrats was nowhere near so certain. A number of conservatives echoed G.O.P. arguments that the stimulus was unnecessary because the economy is recovering well on its own and harmful because the package will at least temporarily swell the very deficits Clinton has made it his top priority to reduce...
...single member of the committee on record against Baird. But the illegal-alien issue was front and center -- and growing fast. "There were phone calls to offices, local editorials," says a top Senate official. "The people were just way ahead of us." Biden more than hinted at the ground swell with his pointed, if rambling, questions. "Do you understand that the vast majority of the American people have similar needs?" he lectured...
Precisely at noon, the chanting of the Rosary begins. Most days this gathering in Conyers, 20 miles southeast of Atlanta, numbers a few dozen. But if it is the 13th of the month, the count may swell as high as 20,000, as travelers from across the country arrive to see the monthly visions of Christ and the Virgin Mary. "We thought we would come just for the blessings, not necessarily to be healed," says Karen Horne of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has lived with multiple sclerosis for 17 years and been in a wheelchair for the past five. Duquelia Dickerson...
...trees and rained down upon pedestrians. In that same grand tradition of meddling with nature, Alaska has declared an air war against hundreds of wolves in an effort to boost already abundant populations of caribou and moose. And all to impress hunters and tourists. Never mind that when herds swell, starvation is often close by. Even as Alaska prepares to wage its wolf war, conservationists in the Lower 48 mourn the absence of wolves and seek to reintroduce them...
...Roman Catholic Church faces its own gender battles as the U.S. bishops meet in Washington to wrestle with the church's controversial policies on women. Activists believe they are caught up in one of Christendom's great and historic transformations. "The last time there was such a ground swell that was not heeded was the Protestant Reformation," says feminist Sandra Schneiders, an Immaculate Heart sister teaching at California's Jesuit School of Theology...