Word: act
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...Clinton found a way to expand his environmental role beyond vetoing Republican proposals. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt introduced him to the glories of the Antiquities Act, which allows the President to declare an area of historic or scientific interest a national monument without having to go through a potentially hostile Congress. Roosevelt used the act in 1908 to protect the Grand Canyon. Standing on his predecessor's shoulders, Clinton chose the South Rim of the Grand Canyon as a backdrop for his declaration in 1996 of the 1.7 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah...
Cheney may not be able to undo all the damage his heart has suffered over the past two decades, but if he cleans up his act, he may help ensure that the heartbeat away from the presidency is a strong...
...VOODOO Slick as chicken grease. Hotter than summer asphalt. D'Angelo summoned old ghosts--Jimi and Marvin--and woke up a new artistic spirit in R. and B. Voodoo (Virgin) is a menage a trois of soul, hip-hop and jazz, all tangled up like lovers caught in the act. Even as D'Angelo pays homage to music's past, he proves the future is in good hands...
...rookies, trooping around Capitol Hill with other Senators-elect and sitting through hours of lectures on how to set up her legislative office. Behind the scenes, the First Lady and soon-to-be New York Senator has buttonholed the chamber's old hands on how she should act to fit into the club. Their advice: pay your dues, speak when you've really got something to say and lose the Secret Service detail when you're in the Capitol. Senators hate colleagues with too many "suits" around them. Clinton has been huddling with BARBARA MIKULSKI, dean of the Democratic women...
Enos doesn't sing, dance, act or even drive trucks--except for this one time--but he does seem to tell jokes. "I might do a commercial for Ryder, but I'm not looking to do something spectacular like run for President," he says. In level of fame, Enos ranks himself below Bronson Pinchot and even under Spillane clients Divine Brown and Faye Resnick. "Those people are focused on a whole story," he says. "I'm just one person who transported ballots from West Palm Beach to Tallahassee." In fact, Enos seems kind of creeped out by the attention...