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Word: vows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slippery guru Dick Morris and asked him to take the country's moral temperature. When Morris' polling suggested that people could stomach an affair but not a cover-up, Clinton's response was his mantra. "Well, we'll just have to win then." Now, on the anniversary of that vow, the President seems to have made good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Campaign | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...people in all the world to take a vow of silence for the duration of the Senate trial, why did it have to be McCain? True, this is serious business, which needs to pass the test of history, not just make the next day's Hotline, but why couldn't, say, Senators Mitch McConnell and Barbara Boxer be the ones to stuff a sock in their mouth? McCain's absence has created such a big hole on shows like Imus in the Morning that producers have reached down to third-tier chatterers like me. The Sunday shows used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Quiet on the Insider Front | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...from Rep. Steve Chabot. "I think we're just going forth, trying to make sure that we've got all the evidence," offered the Ohio Republican. "I think that we're making some real progress." Although the direction of that progress was unclear, committee chair Henry Hyde renewed his vow to have the whole inquiry wrapped up by the New Year. Democrats, of course, are equally keen to get it over with -? which is why they raised no objection to Lindsey's appearance and agreed to waive that contentious attorney-client privilege (much to Bill Clinton's chagrin; the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call the Next Witness | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...football program that was on the bottom, and I saw it become one of the top programs. If the right people work together, with the power of the Holy Spirit, if the anointing of God is with you, you can go the distance." He and other organizers vow they will cancel none of the remaining stadium events scheduled through October around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Trouble: Broken Promises? | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Brown had instant name recognition, but also voters liked his support for charter schools, his vow to revive the city's moribund downtown and his "zero tolerance" of crime. "I want people to feel safer," he says. "That's key to people moving here and staying here." Brown has visited nearly 100 neighborhood groups and won endorsements from the Sierra Club to the United Farm Workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smaller Pond: Jerry Brown is back with a downsized ambition | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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