Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name change is] a final indication of a club that has turned its back on an attempt to adopt the big-tent philosophy," Garcia said...
...Court TV, tabloid television, entertainment television and magazine shows -- the standards they use have gradually infected what used to be the strict, dignified standards of network news. Now those news shows -- they're like circus barkers who have to exaggerate and hype to haul them into the tent...
Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat who consults closely with the White House on health care, said he was getting an ominously fuzzy message. "If I'm getting any signals at all," he said, "it is in the direction of folding up the tent" for this year. In Congress, he observed, "people who want to do nothing and people who want to do too much are peeling off," leaving only a minority interested in modest steps and compromise. One of those splitting off on the left was Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State who favors a "single payer...
Registration will take place at Dudley Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Returning students will register inside and the 569 first-year graduate students will matriculate in a tent outside...
...last week, too, the Clinton Administration's initial response to the renewed flood of refugees that Castro had let loose was heading toward a dead end. The White House had hoped its decision to consign the fugitives indefinitely to the bleak tent cities at Guantanamo would discourage the balseros from pushing off into the Straits of Florida. But a drop-off during the final weekend in August was caused merely by foul weather; clearing skies and lower waves tempted so many rafters into the water last week that U.S. vessels were again picking up more than...