Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people get elected on the U.C. is first by having a person in a position of authority take you under their wing," Hillary K. Anger '93-94 says. "A lot of the guys in the council are not as likely to take a woman under their wing as a protege. If that's not happening a woman is not going to get elected...
...left-wing opposition to entering the war, existent before Pearl Harbor, say the professors, virtually disintegrated after the attack...
...move slightly so he could get a shot of the victor. Carville refused and later bragged that since the Clintonites had won the election, they "didn't need the press anymore." That feeling was apparently shared by others. Practically the first thing Stephanopoulos did after occupying his West Wing office was to order reporters kept out of it unless they had an appointment. No presidential spokesperson had ever tried such a thing before, and last weekend Gergen said he would consider reversing the order. The Clinton White House also had its end-run press strategy, whereby Clinton used talk shows...
...agenda that atrocity served or whether it achieved anything for the murderers. Last week another bomb went off, next to the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence's principal museum. A stolen Fiat van packed with explosives blew up in the middle of the night next to the museum's west wing. The fireball and blast killed five people, destroyed museum archives and an important library near the Uffizi, weakened some of its ancient structure, and destroyed or damaged a number of works of art. Luckily, none of them were Botticellis, Michelangelos, Leonardos or Titians. Paintings by 17th century followers of Caravaggio...
...same officials say Clinton has spent too much time courting the left wing of the Democratic Party when he should be building ties to the middle. After promising to cut taxes on the middle class and "end welfare as we know it," Clinton has proposed a host of tax increases and disguised hefty new spending programs as "investments." Rather than reduce entitlements, he nearly succeeded in creating a program to provide free immunization for children, regardless of income. Asked last week if Clinton really was a "New Democrat," Oklahoma Senator David Boren replied, "That's the $64,000 question...