Word: flank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...independent,'" said Kristol. "Forbes may turn out to be the warm-up for Perot, and that is bad news for Republicans." So Forbes has to be handled with care. But so does Buchanan; no one wants a revolt on the right--and a third-party bid on that flank--either...
...solution," Clinton told reporters. For now, they have. Says TIME's Mark Thompson: "I think they got in trouble and were looking for someone to bail them out. There's a historic rivalry there like the Red Sox and the Yankees. But as members of NATO on the southern flank of Europe they are strategically important. So their rivalry causes problems for us. Clinton acted as the lightning rod and took away the electricity...
...impose lifetime limits on families receiving welfare. The President seeks stronger federal guarantees, and also wants GOP lawmakers to restore reductions to the earned income tax credit which, in his veto message, he called a "powerful work incentive." Carney says Clinton vetoed the bill in part to protect his flank from liberals in Congress and the White House staff who were angered when the President endorsed the Senate welfare bill last Fall. "A deal on welfare will be part of any budget agreement," Carney says. "Still, as with many issues that have stalled budget talks, there are seemingly intractable differences...
...vivid example is The Music Lesson, circa 1662-64. The foreground is occupied by the elephantine bulk of a table draped in a Turkish carpet. Its thick folds of wool and the blue tracery on its shadowed flank, which looks dull in reproduction but fairly blazes in the original, delay your eye as it tries to get into the picture. More obstacles are built into the space between the carpet and the figures at the end of the room. There is a white pitcher on the table, a sky-blue chair with gleaming brass tack heads, and finally the voluptuous...
...from the right came that night after dinner. Newt Gingrich told his staff he was attending a function in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Afterward he slipped onto the Beltway to McLean, where he arrived at Powell's front door sometime after eight. If Powell wanted some protection on his right flank, Gingrich would be essential. For weeks the Speaker had made positive if guarded comments about the general. But he had not done anything to actively push him into the race...