Word: weren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult. I mean, we weren't allowedinto the debates even though I am on the ballot,"he says...
...pushed up Irvine Turner Boulevard, past the vibrant bars and vacant lots, the charged night air began to sound with sharp rifle-like cracks and shrieking sirens. But these weren't the sounds of National Guard guns and police sirens that accompanied Newark's demise for five, hot, summer days in 1967, rather the staccato drum beats of the band were loud enough to set off blaring car alarms in the vehicles we marched beside. Heads poked out of upstairs windows and front doors opened in the public housing townhouses as people paused to watch the commotion pass...
...hard for us to believe that they were that good," said captain Andrew Lundquist. "In some ways we felt like we were the underdog but we weren't intimidated, especially playing at home...
...Feingold," he says. Neumann, a former math teacher and homebuilder, argues that Feingold isn't the goody-goody he claims to be: over Feingold's objections, the League of Conservation Voters and the AFL-CIO have run a few advocacy ads criticizing Neumann. "It would be O.K. if he weren't such a hypocrite about it," says Neumann. "But he wants the Republican Party to go away and to leave the prim and proper Democrats alone." Last week Neumann, stuck in budget talks in Washington, excoriated Feingold for staying on the campaign trail. "Tell him to get off his dead...
...Democrats on Capitol Hill have little appetite for adopting the President's defense that he was "legally accurate" when he insisted under oath that he'd never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. They would much rather quickly concede that Clinton was lying and then argue that the lies weren't serious enough to merit throwing him out of office. That approach puts them in synch with public opinion but at odds with the White House. "If people think it's Bill Clinton who won't let it go away, he'll lose the nation," complains a House Democratic strategist...