Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Realizing what was at stake, Britain, France and Germany also asked for a delayed vote. Lott, however, refused to compromise when Clinton wouldn't promise in writing that he wouldn't bring it back up for vote before the end of his presidential term in 2001. The fact that the decision to bring up the vote with no delay was decided exactly on party lines and the vote on the treaty itself practically so (with a few Republicans voting to ratify) is a pretty clear indicator that the vote was decided not for policy reasons but because of politics...
...American foreign policy there's not always a focus on the long-term approach," he said. "The problem with politics is that people want to make a slogan that appeals to a certain section of society. We in the third world have gotten used to this, so we just sit back, wait for the dust to settle, and then begin again...
...official leaders at all. Former co-chair Ethel B. Branch '01 resigned last fall, and the term of the co-chair she left behind, Sujit M. Raman '00, has since expired. With no one to take over the group, Raman now describes himself as the sole co-chair "by default...
...stop the bond market, which has been smelling inflation all week, from running the yield on Treasury's benchmark 30-year issue to a new two-year high of 6.36 percent at one point. (When no one wants a bond because expected inflation would eat into its long-term value, its yield ?- the payoff for putting your money in it ?- goes up in response; 6.36 is about equivalent to abject begging.) But even that spike was showing signs of flattening as a correction of the correction set in. None of this changes the long-term outlook; Greenspan is still genuinely...
...evidence that the brain generates new cells to record events into memory, as opposed to the long-held belief that memories are formed solely through connections of existing neurons. Nottebohm's theory buttresses the notion that decreased production of brain cells as we age helps explain lapses in short-term memory ? and, conversely, that if brain cell growth can be increased then short-term memory can be improved...