Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans have used their control of the federal government for 20 of the last 24 years to place right-wing ideologues within executive and regulatory agencies. This has led to the subversion, of not only the civil service, but also of the clear intent of many of the laws the bureaucrats have sworn to enforce...
Gone were the fiery speeches in support of AIDS, abortion rights and civil rights of the Democratic convention. But Clinton, trying to deemphasize these issues, may have hurt his cause. Gore, in the vice presidential debates, pointed out that by letting right-wing extremists take over their party (and convention), Republicans had lost a lot of their more moderate supporters. Many of these moderates are disaffected because of the very issues Clinton downplays...
...designer for a small modern dance group that was performing in the basement of a church on Garden Street. Although Alliger had no lighting experience beyond that of the photography studio, he accepted the job. "I was very nervous and I sweated a lot, and it was definitely a wing-it production," he says, "but I probably fell in love with dance as an art form that evening...
...income apartment building in southeast Amsterdam. Laden with fuel and 114 tons of commercial cargo, the freighter had taken off from Schiphol Airport at 6:22 p.m., headed for Tel Aviv. Six minutes later, veteran pilot Isaac Fuchs issued a distress call, reporting a fire in a right-wing engine. As he circled back for the airport, dumping fuel in preparation for an emergency landing, he radioed that a second engine had failed. "Going down! Going down!" Fuchs' words, monitored by the control tower, had a chilling simplicity. Seconds later, the giant plane slammed into the apartment building, sundering...
...contribution has been his leadership of the controversial President's Council on Competitiveness, a kind of appellate court for businesses that feel overburdened by federal regulations, especially environmental ones. The council has served simultaneously to win business friends for the Bush Administration and to help Quayle enhance his right-wing credentials...