Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those of us who bear the responsibility of keeping the public informed so that representative democracy may flourish in America are waiting quietly for the real dirty stuff to start. When the war of sex accusations breaks out on the campaign trail, we intend to deplore it, at length and in detail...
...Trail...
...Woodstock. "We are stardust...And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden..." she sings. The lyrics seem to belong to another age, an era of idealism and Abbie Hoffman and moon landings and electric Kool-Aid acid tests and B-52s bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. But even as she sings, Mitchell is planted in the present. There's a rootedness about her; she's too grounded to be carried off by gusts of nostalgia. She keeps her own time...
WASHINGTON: OK, this impeachment thing is pretty important. But with only days left before Congress hits the campaign trail, the global economy is still burning. And most of the world would prefer the House do its fiddling over something a little more proactive -- like giving the IMF the $18 billion it desperately needs to keep pouring water on the fast-spreading economic blaze. The Senate Republicans have already cleared the money, but in the House, GOP leaders still want to dictate firefighting terms to the international fund, calling for less secrecy, tougher lending terms and shorter repayment time for borrowing...
...cuts through Brazil's Congress is to move fast, while he's dealing with an outgoing group that's less likely to worry about short-term political fallout. That's a presidential problem Bill Clinton would love to have right now -- his Congress looks ready to hit the campaign trail without coughing up the $18 billion in U.S. commitments to the IMF that the low-on-funds fund desperately needs. It certainly won't help Cardoso's approval ratings if the bailout check bounces...