Word: whites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing the same thing. "This was badly mishandled on both sides of Washington," says Calabresi. "The Republicans scheduled a vote and then tried but failed to find a way out. But the administration clearly hadn?t done nearly enough work to muster support for the treaty." Adds TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "It?s too bad that the President offered his most spirited defense of the treaty only after it had been defeated. If he?d done that earlier it might have helped sway some votes...
...Clinton has long been criticized for an apparent failure to generate a coherent foreign policy ? and to risk any of his own political capital on going to bat for it. On the issue of the U.S. repaying its long-standing delinquent debt to the United Nations, for example, the White House periodically throws up its arms in exasperation but has for the most part declined to go head-to-head with the Republican legislators obstructing the funds. "Clinton has been accused of offering no overarching vision in his foreign policy, instead simply managing crisis after crisis with no clear sense...
...idea of "yuppie angst" seems inherently oxymoronic. Yuppies are clean-cut, clear-headed people with successful jobs, shiny new sport utility vehicles, a weak spot for IKEA furniture, and happy families barbecuing behind white-picket fences. With such stability in their lives, what could yupsters possibly have to be all worked up about or dissatisfied with? Well, precisely that: stability. As Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden mentions in Fight Club, thirty-somethings are the "middle children of history:" forgotten in the shadow of those who come before and after them. Yuppies are expected to make it through somehow, become...
...rise to the occasion, arriving in suits to each round of auditions, setting up a veritable shrine to themselves in a side room in which the audtioners wait their turn. As they sit, or pace, they can watch tapes of the Kroks at Carnegie Hall or peruse black and white photos of old members, including the Munsters' own Fred Gwynne '51. The Kroks have identical clipboards and inspect each potential member as a mechanic would an engine, walking up as he sings, bending over and listening with furrowed brow to the nervous auditioner's stab at the Krok standards. "Hmmm...
...Winfrey and Cybill Shepard garner just 16 percent and 6 percent, respectively. As Bill Bradley and, earlier, Ronald Reagan have proved, you first have to make voters think of you as a politician before they'll take an actor or a sportsman seriously as a potential tenant of the White House...