Word: unearthed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gender role conditioning makes women tend to usually become the victim," she said. "We need to unearth the assumption of dominance that goes deep into society...
...like Clinton's acceptance speech. Still, it was a story no news outlet could ignore, one serious enough to bring down the President's chief strategist. As happened so often during the O.J. Simpson trial, the mainstream press had to acknowledge that the tabloids, and tabloid tactics, can sometimes unearth legitimate news. And the Star got another notch in its gun belt...
Moreover, the White House scored a sort of Pyrrhic victory. In two days of House and Senate hearings, Republicans could unearth no evidence that Clintonites used the files to construct a Nixonian enemies list. In fact, the Republicans could not establish that any officials above a rather low level had seen the files. G.O.P. probers who began last week thinking they might uncover a Watergate-size scandal ended up focusing on a less momentous query: Who hired Craig Livingstone...
...that Joshua Rubinstein's Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg is so consistently absorbing. Most lierary biographies are forced to make an exciting story out of lives containing little external incident, and as a result they either present a catalogue of mundane details or try to unearth some salacious, gossipy stories about their subject...
...term, intensively reported projects. Among his stories since then: an expose of Senator Al D'Amato's questionable fund-raising activities and an exhaustive report on Colin Powell's wife and key adviser Alma. This week's piece was probably the toughest of all. He not only had to unearth a carefully buried story, but he had to master the intricacies of nuclear plant operation as well. Says Pooley: "I had to keep going over the same ground before I was sure...