Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth term, the gruff, perpetually embattled New Yorker, who barely squeaked past a weak Democratic challenger six years ago, is considered one of the G.O.P.'s two most vulnerable Senators (Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina is the other). If the Democrats can beat them, it would help avoid a 60-seat G.O.P. majority and hold down the number of hostile votes in what may become Clinton's impeachment jury. But for the President, the New York race is personal. As chairman of the Senate Whitewater hearings in 1995 and '96, D'Amato said he wanted "every child in America...
...game bluster aimed at spooking Republicans into an early deal. After all, pursuing acquittal in a Senate trial would mean Clinton would have to accept a place in history as the second President to be impeached by the House. Top House Democrats will be encouraging the White House to avoid that fate and negotiate with Hyde. Democrats may even be willing to jettison their plans to call Starr as a witness--if Hyde agrees to a debate over whether any of Clinton's alleged offenses merit impeachment...
...spending liberalism, Reiner and his highly paid political consultants have cleverly lined up a cast of conservative backers. Former Senate candidate Michael Huffington and Los Angeles Republican mayor Richard Riordan are co-chairmen, and Pat Boone has posed for a G.O.P.-directed mailer. Indeed, the measure was crafted to avoid a "Big Government" label: it would apportion most of the tax revenue according to the number of births in each county and distribute it to commissions of unsalaried appointees named by local elected officials. "Prop 10 is antibureaucratic," intones Charlton Heston, the new president of the National Rifle Association...
...weeks, former Senator Bob Dole has been warning the Republicans investigating Bill Clinton to avoid overreaching, which may explain why House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde last week floated the idea that the panel might focus on just a few of the 15 charges that are facing Clinton. Such downsizing may be a shrewd move, considering some of these great moments in the history of overreaching...
...schmaltz. Sheik's new CD veers back toward his dour side, where he finds plenty to be glum about--the perils of record-business starmaking in Nothing Special and the falseness of big-city life in That Says It All. It's no surprise that he intends to avoid being trapped in lightweight pop: he's 28 and wants a long career. But Humming's dark overhang of melancholy and shortage of buoyant tunes make this just a good album, when there may have been a great one waiting just one hook away...