Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House Plumbing With water, water everywhere, the White House wants to plug those leaks: Clinton's legal attack team is taking Ken Starr to court. Clinton Cool Under Fire Starr Still Searching for Clinton Paramours Executive Privilege: Just a Stall Tactic...
...sometimes seemed as though ambitious West Wing staff members made a point of recruiting the prettiest interns--not only for their own aesthetic pleasure but in hopes that it would inspire the boss to come around more often. That tactic did not go unnoticed by the few senior women on the President's staff. A former White House aide tells TIME that on several occasions late in 1995 and early 1996, attractive young women were transferred to the nether reaches of government because Clinton kept dropping by unannounced to flirt with them. When Clinton "got too chatty with somebody," explained...
...prove that she lied in front of the grand jury, the immunity would not protect her from perjury charges for that testimony. There is no valid reason, therefore, for Starr to demand a proffer which incriminates the President before he grants Lewinsky immunity. The only reason for this hardball tactic is to influence the content of what she will...
...attorney is displaying the one thing we haven't yet seen from the main players in "Interngate:" Emotion. "I may be the only person in the country, apart from her parents, who actually cares about Monica," William Ginsburg told CNN. It may be nothing more than a legal tactic ? make the public sympathetic to his client. But amid the determined silence from other leading players in the scandal ? Clinton, Tripp and Lewinsky herself ? Ginsburg's indignant quotes seem likely to be devoured by a hungry public...
...envoy Ben Franklin replies, "What good is a newborn baby?" The English Channel is crossed in 1785, and ballooning soon becomes the stuff of daredevils (3). But in 1794 the world's first air force is born: warring France uses tethered balloons to observe and direct troops, a tactic later employed in the American Civil War. During WW II, barrage balloons (4) and their slicing cables help protect various sites, including London, against low-flying enemy planes. From the outset, balloons are used to study the atmosphere, eventually lifting men to the brink of space (5). Sports ballooning takes...