Word: vacuums
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...currently headed for federal courts. "The Justices obviously do not want to see these lawsuits federalized," says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. The Court, says Sanders, may be signaling its dissatisfaction with current health care statutes and using this ruling to prod Congress and the President into addressing that vacuum. "They could be saying, look, we're not the branch of government that's supposed to make social policy," he says. In other words, the Court sees itself as a purely interpretive entity, without the will (or desire) to create legislation...
...which backfired and hurt him badly among the urban Catholics he needed in the close race. As historian Horace Samuel Merrill wrote: "The depiction of Blaine as an unrestrained public plunderer and Cleveland as town drunk and debaucher was just a part of the material used to fill the vacuum of a campaign devoid of issues." In the end, Grover Cleveland turned out to be a good president...
Nevertheless, Washington will face a talent vacuum in the first part of the 21st century, and it doesn't look like Harvard students will be there to fill...
...transistor is invented (will replace vacuum tubes...
...their Lebanese Christian proxy army forced Prime Minister Ehud Barak to speed up the withdrawal plan. Even more worrying to the Israeli leader than the spectacle of his troops retreating under fire and Hezbollah guerrillas dancing triumphantly atop tanks abandoned by his Lebanese allies is the fact that the vacuum left by Israel has been filled by a guerrilla movement implacably hostile to the Jewish state and emboldened by what it sees as its defeat of the Israeli occupation...