Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President on handling the issue. The change partly reflects the verdict of most independent analysts, who say Clinton's measure is a better deal for the middle-class taxpayer than what the House and the Senate are offering. And when the argument turns to the details of the various proposed tax breaks, Clinton has positioned himself as the champion of hardworking parents: while he pushes his education tax credits, for instance, the same Republicans who wanted to close the Education Department will be fighting to index capital-gains taxes so that investment profits can be insulated from inflation...
...think that--every dead brown rock on every dead brown planet serving to exalt our life by contrast. We are the fireworks in the darkened universe, the Chinese firecrackers, the Roman candles and the sparklers. In a few short decades we may be spread out as settlers on various globes under the stars, calling out Tarzan yells to farther galaxies--kings of the brown hills...
...story is told through a series of flashback, in which the various couples lead Robert down a path of self-awareness that concludes in the birthday party. The couples' individual situations show Robert that married life indeed requires that which he fears--sacrifice and pain--but it also provides a sense of fulfillment and completeness...
PNOMH PENH, Cambodia: Yeah, right. A clandestine Khmer Rouge radio broadcast claimed today that Pol Pot was captured Thursday night by a group of former comrades now loyal to Cambodia's royalist premier. Nobody's actually seem Pol Pot in captivity, of course, except the various groups that have claimed to hold him. Having just admitted they were wrong when they claimed to have captured him, Royalist government officials now are reluctant to say what they know. Meanwhile, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen, the leader of the formerly communist Cambodian People's Party, coolly dismissed the news as another flimsy...
...Good order and discipline" was the phrase used again and again at a news conference last week by Kenneth Bacon, the Pentagon spokesman, as he went about the unenviable task of trying to explain to a roomful of badgering reporters why widely different handling of various adultery cases by the Pentagon did not constitute a double standard...