Word: excepting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Clinton raised almost as much money for his presidential library as Gore did for his election. After that, Clinton left the country to tour Africa leaving Gore centerstage. He is limiting himself to Millenium Summits and other goodwill endeavors that are appropriate for a President but where little occurs except photo...
...they inflate the already excessive time spent on the incredibly unproductive business of campaigning. Campaigning not only wastes politicians' time, but, because of its attack ads, its mud-slinging and its inflated promises, campaigning destroys voter trust. An extended campaign season leaves political reporters with little to write about except the occasional missteps of candidates on the trail and juicy gossip, none of which is really relevant to the issues of governance. The skeleton generally rises out of the closet in the beginning of a campaign--if you think back far enough the public was well aware of Clinton...
...into. When he suddenly agreed to withdraw from Kosovo, NATO was left in a situation of not knowing what to do about Kosovo or about Milosevic. And now as the situation threatens to escalate, once again they don't know what to do. But they may have no option except to sit and wait and see how the situation develops. The most important thing is not to do anything that gives Milosevic a pretext to declare a state of war and claim the country's under attack. Lack of a clear policy has painted the West into a corner. Right...
...totally reliant on others. He needed Debbie to help him shower and dress, to bring him food. A stair glide was installed to enable him to go downstairs during the day, but he needed her assistance to hobble over to it and climb on. Debbie rarely left the house except to drive Dan to his medical appointments. In the last weeks before her husband died, she acknowledged without resentment that "I don't have a life. Everything revolves around...
AILING. PIERRE TRUDEAU, 80, rakish, quick-witted and charismatic former Prime Minister of Canada; with an undisclosed illness; in Montreal. Trudeau, who served from 1968 until 1984 (except for nine months when he was voted out of office), suffers from Parkinson's disease, and caught pneumonia earlier this year. According to his two sons, he is "not well" and "resting comfortably with his family...