Word: mid-term
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...steady move to the center, seems to be working. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, Clinton had a 49% job-approval rating, up from 41% a month earlier. "It's getting better," said senior adviser George Stephanopoulos. It couldn't have got much worse. In the weeks after the mid-term elections, the Clinton White House had been in mourning, with top officials from the President on down trying out theories of "what happened" on one another. The soul-searching has ended, and no one sped the change more than Ickes. Last week, backed by Mrs. Clinton, he worked...
...Harvard men's and women's tennis teams received their mid-term grads this weekend in the form of the fall Rolex Intercollegiate Tennis Rankings and neither team was very pleased...
...seems whenever I get a lousy mid-term grade back (but who's counting), I always think I could've done much better. It's comforting to see that the tennis teams are no different...
...disappointing mid-term result may actually be just what it needs: a kich in the pants, so to speak...
...claim at nearly every stop that Republicans wanted to cut the benefits of Social Security recipients by $2,000 each. However improbable -- and hypocritical, since Clinton's own budget director suggested a similar package of entitlement cuts recently -- the ploy helped the Democrats win 26 seats in the mid-term elections during Ronald Reagan's first term. And Democrats have been faithfully trotting it out ever since...