Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Michael Dukakis's old running mate had Rubin's job from 1992 to 1995 while Rubin headed President Clinton's newly created National Economic Council in the White House. The expansion, and the unstoppa-bull that went with it, started on Bentsen's watch. But in 1993, it was Goldman Sachs veteran Rubin (with an assist from Greenspan) who persuaded President Clinton that his dreams of a prosperous American middle class had to be kick-started by balancing the federal government's then blood-red budget books. A credible deficit reduction plan would please the bond market, the former arbitrageur...
...went up with dignity, because the Living Wage Campaign is about people with dignity who ought to be treated the right way. We came back with determination," West said. "We presented her assistant with the endorsement with signatures of every...
...very important that the city council went on record opposing this bill, that was significant," said Nancy E. Hall, who is an EFZ member...
...small, tidy things, dramas that tend their own little garden and don't venture very far into the wild outdoors. Hare's The Blue Room, which brought Nicole Kidman to Broadway earlier this season, reduced Schnitzler's La Ronde to a trivial actors' exercise for two. Hare then went one better (or one lesser) by appearing onstage alone, recounting his trip to the Middle East and calling it a play, Via Dolorosa. Another well-received import from Britain, The Weir, is a 90-minute chamber piece in which the denizens of a bar in Ireland trade ghost stories. This year...
...becoming a saint this week with Pope John Paul II's beatification of the Capuchin friar known as PADRE PIO. The cleric, who died in 1968, is a favorite of the Pontiff's and a cultlike figure to many other Catholics. Last year 7 million pilgrims--more than went to Lourdes--trekked to the remote hillside village of Italy's San Giovanni Rotondo, where he's buried; the village bustles with the construction of hotels and a church that will seat...