Word: accession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday Bush vetoed the resolution, calculating that the outcry from outraged citizens denied access to Social Security offices, national monuments and federal services would stampede Congress into quickly adopting a budget resolution along the lines of the defeated pact. After an attempt to override the veto failed, negotiations between Congress and the White House resumed. To break the impasse, it appeared for a time that the factions might agree to a trade: Democrats would go along with a cut in the capital-gains tax favored by the President; Republicans would accept the hike in income taxes on the wealthy that...
...Stanford goes a step further, offering unmarried couples the same access to Stanford University facilities that married spouses enjoy, including libraries, athletic centers, and health care at the University Health Center...
...were concerned that our students have the same access to the MFA that other colleges and universities in the area have," said Deanna Dalrymple, the administrator of the Fine Arts Department...
When notified of Harvard's new access to the MFA, Professor of History Simon M. Schama said, "Oh good! It's about time...
...desk, potted plant to his left -- and the rambling script brimmed with illogic, non sequiturs and esoteric references to history. In the land of the sound bite, where attention spans are conditioned by the quick democracy of the remote control, The Saddam Show was barely worthy of public-access cable, much less prime-time TV. It was no surprise that the major networks ran only brief excerpts, while CNN relegated its full airing of the tape to 1 a.m. Eastern time. "Nobody who understands modern television," said an American intelligence analyst, "would deliver such a tape...