Word: cleaned
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...into HMOs). Reform-minded voters beware. For all his talk of reform, Bush would leave the current system of huge soft-money contributions intact, and the threat to our democracy would continue to grow. Gore is a leader, and he will work with McCain, Feingold and other reformers to clean up the political system and give our democracy back to the people...
...have, we hope, a better system," she says. "We're starting a new slate, a nice clean slate...
...three years as chief of the agency, the former National Security Council aide has rewritten his job description. Tenet is far less deskbound than his predecessors, ready to leave the security of the Langley, Va., headquarters for the action of the field. And though he's been working to clean up the inside of the agency--helping it adjust to post-cold war spying missions--he's also been a dramatic outside presence. President Clinton, for example, regularly calls on Tenet to chat with Arafat, relying on a loose friendship between the two men that dates back almost three years...
McCaffrey responded by clarifying the official federal position. While the federal government will not provide funds for these programs, which offer free clean needles to addicts, it will support the programs on the local level, he said. Needles are extremely cheap, and are an issue that can be adequately handled by mayors or other local administration...
...first, I suspected that "fuzzy math'' simply meant "inaccurate numbers.'' But Bush flatly refused to replace Gore's fuzzy numbers by clean-shaven ones of his own, so eventually this idea began to seem untenable. Then, for awhile, I concluded that "fuzzy math'' was code for "high-fallutin' Washington-style use of numbers instead of words.'' But I was also unable to hold on to this belief for too long, because Bush himself cited plenty of numbers as the evening progressed...