Word: ushering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Later Rex Scouten, chief White House usher, remembers walking with Ford to his bedroom on that night, saying something about Ford's long, distinguished public career and how it might be best for him to move on and think of himself. Ford looked at Scouten with a great hurt in his eyes. "I don't believe so," he said. None of them ever...
...winners shouldn't expect to usher in the feminist millennium. With a Clinton Administration, there may be some easy wins on the Freedom of Choice Act, family leave and fetal-tissue research. But in a rating of his program by the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, Clinton received only a B-minus (Bush got a D), and in an effort to build a governing coalition, he may be tempted to distance himself from his party's more feminist and liberal wing. In the House, where women have traditionally been relegated to inconsequential committees, the new crop...
...give you pause, but consider this: you've got seven years to find a date and make yourself presentable. "There is still plenty of time to coordinate your hair with your makeup," soothes fashion designer Dianne Brill. A night owl, Brill is planning the outfit she will wear to usher in the ) year 2000. Her rule of thumb: "Overdress, but be comfy...
...here, in this convention-mad city, even the locals couldn't resist missing the grand old party in the Astrodome, even if the only way in was to volunteer as an usher...
...judges were concerned that ending Theresa Ann's life would set a harmful precedent: people who were not completely braindead could be exterminated based on their projected "quality of life." Unwilling to usher in a new Nazi era, they adopted the "Who are we to decide?" approach to Theresa Ann's life...