Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paid off. The investigation defused public criticism, crippled congressional hearings by making crucial witnesses unavailable and hobbled the press by silencing potential sources. Starr took no significant steps during the fall campaign, thus ensuring that his investigation remained untainted by what might have appeared to be partisan politics. No wonder Whitewater never took on any significance as a campaign issue...
Along with Schoen's partner, Mark Penn, these men would help Clinton resuscitate his lifeless presidency--engineering the re-election of a man who looked for all the world like a one-term wonder, a political afterthought. The Republican midterm landslide a few months before had depressed the President, and for good reason. White House polling showed that voters gave him especially low marks for "effectiveness" and "decisiveness"--two hallmarks of presidential leadership. Clinton's approval rating was in the 40s; he trailed Dole in the presidential horse race by 15 percentage points. Voters associated Clinton with three principal issues...
...hunter and now a professional conservationist, I read with interest your article on states' efforts to ban some deplorable hunting practices [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 28]. My father, grandfathers and uncle instilled in me a hunting ethic: respect for wildlife and habitat, fair chase, safety and reverence for the bounty and wonder of nature. Individuals involved with bear baiting, hounding and same-day, airborne hunting are not true hunters. Shame on them for their vicious slaughter of wildlife! But shame on us, the upstanding hunters, too for not pursuing these individuals. The hunting community should be the leading voice calling for immediate...
...that the good guys? squad should be called The Ducks, Bugs ripostes, "What kind of a Mickey Mouse organization would name their team The Ducks?"). Bill Murray is on hand for a brief master display of slapdash comedy. But "Space Jam, directed by Joe Pytka, is mainly about the wonder, the grace, the supernal niceness of its live-action star," notes TIME's Richard Corliss. "The film could have been a gleaming showcase for cartoon wit. Instead it's an 87-minute commercial peddling sainthood for Michael Jordan...
...some students wonder what sort of dean Martin will be, and particularly whether he will maintain HMS's revolutionary approach to medical instruction...