Word: clearing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Election commission, council president-elect should clear...
...election commission is so unsure about the application of its own rules that it gives one response one day and the opposite the next, it should become a immediate concern of the new leaders of the council. We call upon Driskell and Burton to clear up this confusion through a public statement about their campaign's finances. Furthermore, we urge the council to re-examine the rules and procedures of the election commission so that it can become a truly accountable and responsible body...
...expected that there would be at least two clear frontrunners, and I felt like we were one of them," she said. "I expected first place and second place to be really close, though...
...Gore and Bill Bradley, surely the most nonconfrontational of politicians, for at least trying to put up their dukes in debates that took place Friday in New Hampshire and Sunday on "Meet the Press." The subjects were wonkish - health care, education, campaign finance reform - but the subtext was clear: How willing were they to show a nasty side...
...While it was very clear that action was needed, Washington played a major role in influencing the decision to take no action," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Having just come out of the Somalia debacle, which had been badly managed by both the U.S. and the U.N., Washington didn't want to get involved in another complex conflict in Africa." Of course, while the solutions were complex, the numbers were devastatingly simple: 800,000 people were killed in one month in Rwanda as Hutu mobs butchered their Tutsi neighbors...