Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's not to say animosity toward Clinton especially--the infamous "Clinton fatigue"--was responsible for electing Ventura. But the president, any president, sets the political tone for the country as a whole, and Clinton is certainly the most high-profile and adept practitioner of the kind of cautious, poll-obsessed politics the Minnesotans who elected Ventura were protesting against...
With the match seeming all but destined to go into overtime, freshman forward Beth Totman broke a scoreless tie with just 47 seconds left in regulation with a laser shot directed toward the far right post...
After months of fussing and fretting that the Fed would raise interest rates, the markets finally let their guard down ? and got a nasty shock. No, Alan Greenspan didn?t hike 'em a third straight time. But he let everybody know he?s watching, moving the Fed?s bias toward tightening and sending a recently resurgent Dow into an instant 100-point mini-tailspin (thus smothering an earlier rally and ending the day even). "It?s a clear signal that the bank is concerned that the economy isn?t slowing down fast enough," says TIME senior economics correspondent Bernard Baumohl...
...Republican party popular again. The front-running Texas governor on Tuesday rolled out the second of three major education proposals for a conservative Manhattan crowd ?- and pointedly accused them of straying from the true path. "Too often on social issues my party has painted an image of America slouching toward Gomorrah.... Too often my party has focused on the national economy to the exclusion of all else.... Too often my party has confused the need for limited government with the disdain for government itself," he said. It was the second swipe at his party fellows in as many weeks...
Sorkin's tendency toward the dramatic is exacerbated by casting serial over-emoter Martin Sheen as Democratic President Josiah Bartlet, who makes his first appearance speaking in the voice of God. Bursting into a showdown with religious conservatives, Sheen quotes the First Commandment, then unburdens himself of a pair of minute-and-a-half speeches while Coplandesque music swells and the camera cuts to admiring staff members, in case we've failed to notice how darned inspiring he is. There will be no curtains left in this Oval Office once Sheen has finished chewing the scenery...