Word: swore
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...begin the GOP campaign to fulfill the party's "Contract With America" today. In a 43-minute address to the House, Gingrich said he had two over-riding goals: to achieve a balanced budget by 2002 and "to truly replace the current welfare state with an opportunity society." He swore in the new members of the House and began debate on rule changes that would slash committee staffs, abolish three House committees and require a three-fifths vote to raise income tax rates. Republicans now have majorities in both chambers: 230-204 with one independent in the House...
...took three different people, (one of whom swore at me a couple of times), two different floors, and a good half and hour of playing trial and error before I finally, on my own, figured out where I could possibly, but not necessarily, get some medical attention...
Arafat's spirits were temporarily buoyed when 10,000 Gazans rallied for him last week. Among them were several hundred Fatah Hawks, a military branch of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Hawks, who had been ignored of late by Arafat, swore, in chanted slogans, to defend him and the Authority. The militiamen then drove around the Gaza Strip, brandishing their guns and shouting slogans such as, "We shall shave the beards ((of the Islamists)) with our shoes...
...today distributed a videotape of a man it said was the suicide attacker who blew up 22 others on a crowded bus; on the tape, Salah Abdel-Rahim Hassan Assawi says he planned the bombing because his brother was killed in the Palestinian intifadeh. At least one witness, however, swore he wasn't the culprit...
...hasn't garnered the same press coverage as his worst blunders, but President Clinton nonetheless worked hard to make political hay of one of his seemingly rare victories: the $360-million National Service program. Passed earlier this year, Clinton today swore in the first members of the "Americorps," which aims to get America's youth involved in community service and provides money for college in return. But even this feel-good event had a gray cloud: the White House was supposed to host one of the photo-op ceremonies on the South Lawn, but the event had to be moved...