Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Renewal, the second group in three days to defect from the Liberal Democrats, is considered the most likely to pull together a coalition able to oust what is left of Japan's unruly and unroyal dynasty. Once the managers of Japan's rise to economic-superpower status under the warm glow of its alliance with the U.S., the Liberal Democrats today are noted for a single, sordid attribute: corruption. Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa sank to a lowly 9% approval rating two weeks ago after he buckled under party pressure and failed to deliver promised anticorruption legislation, despite intense popular demands...
...Leon Ritzenthaler, 55, the retired owner of a janitorial-supply company in Paradise, California. He says he is the son of Clinton's father, W.J. Blythe, and Blythe's first wife, who married when they were both 18. On Friday the White House said the two men had a "warm conversation," their first, by phone, and agreed to meet in the future...
...result, the cool, composed Pat Nixon of endless bunting-draped platforms obliterated the warm Pat Nixon who put the shy at ease and never forgot a birthday. She excelled in keeping the White House a national treasure, acquiring more fine American furnishings than any other First Lady. Thanks to her, James Monroe's special-order French bergere was returned to its rightful place in the Blue Room, and Gilbert Stuart portraits of John Quincy Adams and his wife replaced copies in the Red Room. "She wouldn't allow anybody to give her the credit," says White House curator Rex Scouten...
...them as they did me my first few months here. I was the little Southern girl from the all-female school who had been brought up to be polite, respectful and subtle. I had never been in a class with more than 50 people. I was from a warm, tree and park-heavy, conservative, pretty Southern town and somebody had thrown me into a cold, highly urban, radical, rarefied Northern enclave. All my cultural referents were...
...there was a hurricane a couple of years ago. Yes, temperatures can reach the high nineties. Yes, it can get very, very humid--almost stifling. And yes, this particular summer, on the heels of a winter marked by heavy snowfall, is expected to be unusually warm. But most evenings and mornings, the weather is pleasant. A fan will cool off a bedroom, classroom or office. If the heat gets too oppressive, there is an easy antidote--water...