Word: unless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked if she could foresee any political controversies, she quips, "Unless I can create...
Take Dr. Gary Smith, for example. For the past four years, the Houston urologist has been picking up extra cash by promoting Amway products. Smith says he finds most of his clients at medical conferences, around the hospital or at social events and rarely pitches his patients unless they ask him about...
That's no way to avenge a lost battle--unless, of course, you have already won the war. Daschle and his 43 Democratic colleagues may have failed in their attempt to dismiss the case against Bill Clinton, but in that vote and four others, Democrats held together (well, except for the free-spirited Russ Feingold), making it virtually certain that the G.O.P. will never get the 67 votes needed to convict. Though Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and White House aide Sidney Blumenthal will be deposed this week, even stalwart Republicans privately admit that the trial is basically dead...
...dispute, after fermenting in the gut of the world trade bureaucracy for the past seven years, has become at once more serious and more ludicrous. More serious because, unless the Europeans fulfill their obligations under various trade agreements to accept imported bananas, support for trade restrictions will grow among many U.S. commercial interests and their advocates in Congress. A preliminary settlement appeared to have been reached last week allowing the U.S. to impose punitive tariffs on $520 million in European goods, though that figure is subject to review. Whatever the amount, it is not likely to please Europe, and that...
...idea might seem anachronistic in the age of C-SPAN and sunshine laws, but it is well in line with the principle that "the arguments and votes of jurors...are secrets, protected from disclosure unless the privilege is waived," a notion that the Supreme Court once called an "immemorial tradition...