Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mayor of this city drew cheers as well as guffaws when he started a civility campaign in (a) Los Angeles (b) Washington (c) Brazzaville (d) New York...
Even beatification, if it comes on these terms, is a kind of punishment for a First Lady who swept into Washington wanting to put her stamp on social policy and bring government back into fashion. Instead she handed Newt control of Congress with her health-care plan and had her place in history established as the first First Lady ever to be forced to testify before a grand jury...
...WASHINGTON: The stampede that just last week sealed President Clinton?s impeachment is now headed in the other direction. CNN reports that at least a dozen more GOP moderates hold views similar to those of the four representatives who Tuesday asked Trent Lott to ignore that bit in the articles about ?removal from office.? But TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that hopes for a pre-trial censure deal will run up against the same brick wall that quashed a compromise in the House: Republican leaders in thrall to the far right. ?Trent Lott can?t be seen...
...WASHINGTON: The U.S. economy is back on its own for a while. After a frenzied (for Alan Greenspan, anyway) string of three straight interest-rate cuts, the Federal Reserve took an expected pass on Tuesday, courtesy of the American consumer. Emboldened by their ever-fattening stock portfolios, consumers have not only carried their economy through a tenuous autumn, they have actually set off some alarms in the Fed's head about an old foe: inflation...
Politicians in Washington last week discussed how to save Social Security, but Americans are trying to see if the numbers add up. During the next year, every adult will receive a statement that shows how much she pays into the system and how much she should get back upon retirement. Without Social Security reform, the young will be big losers...