Word: unless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would never use it to come back from the airport because, unless I saw it parked outside, I would just take a cab," he said...
...meetings and that they started and ended on time. And he worked assiduously to plug leaks, taking his yellow highlighter to anonymous quotes and confronting the suspects. "He was trying to enforce the rules of the game," says a White House aide. "You keep your mouth shut unless you're authorized to open it. The place became a lot tighter...
...chief of staff to tee up decisions for the President and to take care of the ones he shouldn't be bothered with. The role requires someone with strong political judgment, not an honest broker--unless Clinton himself plans to spend more time down in the weeds this term. "The White House makes ideas, it makes policies," says a senior official. "Erskine would come and ask us what we need"--as a good manager might ask subordinates in a business--"and people would look back at him kind of baffled. What they needed was an answer--what does the President...
...something wonderful, depending on your viewpoint. One of the sweetest men ever to practice the sweet science, Holyfield had won only two of his past four fights, and the Nevada State Athletic Commission was so worried about a heart irregularity that it would not sanction the fight unless he received clearance from the Mayo Clinic. "Nobody thought I could win," Holyfield said last Friday during a swing through New York City. "Their judgments were not based on our talents, though, but on our images. It was the monster with hate in his heart versus a man who was always talking...
...moon," he said during a May 25, 1961, speech. "But I think every citizen as well as the members of Congress should consider the matter carefully.... It is a heavy burden, and there is no sense in agreeing...that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space unless we are prepared to do the work...to make it successful...