Word: vows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's demeanor on Thursday was a bit stiff, perhaps because those first nominees (save Altman) represented a generation older than his own. How different his mood on Friday, when he was surrounded by appointees whom he genuinely enjoys and who fit his vow of "a new generation of leaders." Harvard political economist Robert Reich, a Rhodes scholar with Clinton, will be Secretary of Labor. Health and Human Services went to Donna Shalala, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and a friend of Hillary Clinton's. Another woman becomes chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: Laura D'Andrea Tyson...
...elect Clinton doesn't fulfill his campaign promise to reduce the budget deficit by at least half during his four-year term, I'm going to stage a national revolution to topple the American government. Yes, you heard me right. Revolution. Rebellion. Insurrection. Call it what you will. I vow to destroy the entire federal government if President Bill doesn't satisfy my demand and fulfill his promise...
...safely) gregarious friend, for whom a vow of chastity is too hideous to even contemplate, wondered erroneously, (while surreptitiously checking my palms for stigmata), whether this enterprise involved vows of poverty and celibacy. My high school friends from St. Josephs Convent gently reminded me of the rigors of life there and the reflexive crushing of attempts to depart from accepted doctrine...
Military leaders denounce Clinton's plan to end the ban on gays, and some have called on congressional allies to help. Ordinary soldiers threaten to harass and hobble implementation or quit their posts en masse -- a tough vow to sustain amid a recession but politically explosive nonetheless. The Navy's Reserve Officers Training Corps program on college campuses has installed, and last week was upholding, a new oath. It requires student sailors to pledge that they are not homosexual and that they will return every penny of their training costs (an average of $52,967 per student) if they...
...flies into Washington for the Inauguration, having studied closely the biographies of past First Ladies for guidance, Hillary Clinton may vow not to go to Cabinet meetings and take notes, declare a tablecloth crisis or order up a set of gold-rimmed china. She may carefully find a way to chart a new course. But however circumspect, she will make her own mistakes. And if history is any guide, for reasons as old as Adam and Eve, some Americans will punish her for them out of proportion to their significance...