Word: swore
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Sent back to the drawing boards in June with orders to "firm up the math," Clinton's team quickly produced Putting People First (or PPF, as it is called), a 232-page paperback chock-full of numbers, all of which Clinton swore "added up." At its bottom line, the proposal promised to halve the nation's deficit by 1996, an assessment many considered sober and even courageous because it backed off Clinton's earlier intention to wipe out the red ink entirely by the end of his first term. But even this modified deficit- reduction promise owed little to Clinton...
...Little Rock, Arkansas, ready to rush a cover picture of President-elect Clinton to an imaging center in Houston for final transmittal (President Bush's headquarters is in Houston; his picture would have to travel only across town). Says Knowlton: "From a production viewpoint, it's murder. I swore four years ago I'd never do this to myself again -- but here...
...more than once at the White House. And one morning the lady came forth and said that she had awakened and saw a figure standing down at the foot of the bed and looking out the windows. And when that figure turned, it was Abraham Lincoln. She said she swore by it. And he -- the figure -- then left the room. Well, her husband just couldn't believe it. He said, 'Oh, you must have been dreaming.' And believe it or not, sometime later he was almost on his knees apologizing to his wife because he had awakened...
Within the memory of many who will choose between Bush and Clinton, official lying once stunned the nation. In 1960, after Dwight Eisenhower wrongly swore that a U.S. reconnaissance plane had strayed inadvertently over the Soviet Union, the country was shocked. Many had naively assumed that an unwritten code forbade their leaders to lie to them. Within 15 years Vietnam and Watergate had inured the nation to official lying. In 1976, 69% of respondents agreed in a national poll that "over the past 10 years, this country's leaders have consistently lied to the people." Today there is an almost...
...13th century. The city's charter of citizens' rights, the Usatges, or Usages, predates the Magna Carta by a century. And the Catalans' sense of otherness -- the separation, cultural and institutional, from the rest of Spain -- comes through loud and clear in the oath of allegiance their leaders swore to the Aragonese kings in the 15th century: "We, who are as good as you, swear to you, who are no better than us, to accept you as our king and sovereign lord, provided that you observe all our liberties and laws -- but if not, not." Catalans have always waxed lyrical...