Word: mended
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Bill Clinton has never really hit it off with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, but now he needs him. That's why the President had to pick up the phone in the White House last Wednesday night and mend fences -- not for the first time -- with the brilliant and unpredictable New York Senator. Clinton called to deny news reports that he was "exasperated" with Moynihan's lack of movement on health-care legislation. Never mind that the reports were accurate and that Senate majority leader George Mitchell shared the President's frustration. Clinton recognizes that Moynihan's Finance Committee now represents...
...these details add up to an unfinished project. Many such giltches would be simple to mend, but until they are, the transportation of time and place of this visually arresting production is needlessly undermined. At a more fundamental level, misplaced dramatic pretensions in comedy simply create confusion...
Everyone is an optimist on opening day. There must be a saying that the grass is always greenest on opening day. The 35-year old free agent pick-up will hit 35 homers and really will be worth his three million-dollar price tag. All injuries will mend in three to six weeks. The Red Sox really will steal bases...
Chinese authorities insisted that relations between Washington and Beijing were on the mend until Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck met with dissident Wei Jingsheng two weeks ago. Last week Christopher was unapologetic. "We cannot accept any restrictions on meetings between our diplomats and officials and Chinese citizens who are not accused of crimes," he said through a spokesman. "We cannot accept punishment and intimidation of those Chinese who choose to meet with...
Amid aftershocks and homelessness, residents of the Los Angeles area tried to achieve some sense of normality just one week after the Jan. 17 earthquake that killed 57 people. Schools reopened and highways were on the mend while more than 179,000 residents applied for government aid. In Washington, President Clinton requested a $6.6 billion aid package for the victims and promised the money would not be held up by federal budget battles...