Word: nascent
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...president-elect heads to the Crawford ranch for the weekend, his nascent cabinet is now three-quarters full. And the latest four picks are a very representative sample of the process so far: One Republican star, two people you've never heard of, one who's been pre-leaked for weeks, and one who's already held...
...successor to a wildly popular Democratic economic legacy, has been lucky enough to see that legacy start fraying long before November. He can lower expectations without taking any of the blame, and with the mood as it is now he'll get credit for merely pulling out of the nascent tailspin, presumably with Greenspan's help...
President-elect George W. Bush's first nomination for his nascent Cabinet was a confirmation on Saturday of the worst-kept secret in Washington: Gen. Colin L. Powell, (Ret.), for secretary of state. Would for him that every step of this fast tiptoe through the transition minefield could be this sure...
...student at Yale in the mid-'90s, I found that I thought more about collective bargaining, binding arbitration and union-busting. Yale's campus saw three painful labor strikes in 1995, when neither of the recognized unions was able to settle a new contract with the university and the nascent teaching fellows union was forcefully pushing for legal recognition. While the unions for clerical/technical and service/maintenance workers finally won contracts, graduate student teachers did not. Their struggle has continued over the last five years...
...WUSA is still in its nascent stages. At the present moment all teams have five players on their rosters--three resulting from U.S. National Team player allocations and two players from the WUSA Foreign Draft...