Word: thicket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half-life of media memory -- is his convoluted account of dealings with his Arkansas draft board back in 1969. Clinton has bumped into questions about avoiding induction into the military during the Vietnam War since his early days in Arkansas politics, and his responses amount to a tortuous thicket of incomplete and not entirely compatible explanations...
...through November. One petition- drive worker in New York City who attended an orientation meeting received four follow-up phone calls confirming that she would actually hit the streets with a clipboard. Other statewide groups have been equally effective in marshaling support and finding their way through the legal thicket. Perot's California organization, which collected more than 1 million signatures to place him on the ballot, has drawn up a 26-page strategy manual on how to deploy volunteers and sent a copy to the main office urging its adoption nationwide. Some Perot partisans contend that paid political consultants...
While the A.M.A.'s statement supports that view, many doctors are reluctant to wade into the domestic thicket. A survey of physicians' attitudes about domestic violence in the current Journal of the American Medical Association reveals their concerns about the ever expanding roles they are expected to assume in modern society and the enormous demands these make on their time. In recent years they have been asked to take a larger role in monitoring child abuse, explaining to very ill patients that they have the right to refuse treatment and screening for depression. "They feel they are being asked...
...Arthur Andersen, the accounting giant, cannot penetrate the carefully designed thicket of regulations that keeps its auditors from practicing in Turkey...
...Democratic nomination. The Arkansas Governor has been grilled on marital infidelity, draft dodging, pot smoking and conflicts of interest, and the going may get even rougher if he faces George Bush in the fall campaign. Clinton has talked himself hoarse trying to explain his way through the thicket of nettlesome questions and get back to discussing the political and economic issues that he hopes will help him topple an unpopular incumbent. All he needs is a level playing field, say Clinton's aides; but so far, they complain, Bush has been spared the relentless probing that has kept their...