Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President who once said he didn't want to spend much time on foreign affairs can be grateful for a difficult-to-explain policy toward Iraq because it distracts him from the impossible-to-explain stories of late-night visits, gifts sent and retrieved and job offers from heaven. But his efforts to manage the crisis are complicated by the facts that he is isolated within the White House as never before, his staff is distracted, his Democratic allies are apprehensive, and his poll numbers are floating like clouds, so high and so very soft...
...Ohio the trick got out of hand. The old-fashioned town meeting has fallen from favor because it was disorderly and unpredictable--ill suited to the kind of dispassionate reflection government is supposed to require. In a real town meeting the balance tends to tip toward the fellow with the loudest voice--the crank with the thickest sheaf of mimeographed papers under his arm. The Founders had a horror of direct democracy for this very reason, and the system they devised was meant specifically to calm the passions, quiet the mob and channel its energies, and create a space...
Nonetheless, in the Clinton years, both the major political and policy legacies of Reagan have been discredited. "Reaganomics," as his economic policy came to be called, of lower taxes, higher defense spending and a devil-may-care attitude toward the bottom line, has been blamed for the huge deficits of the '80s while Clinton's "anti-Reaganomics" has actually worked. It has contributed to both a growing economy and the elimination of the deficit...
...WIRE) STATE COLLEGE, Penn.--"It won't happen to me." It's a natural attitude toward alcohol-related incidents in college. Unfortunately, negative incidents occur every day, and one day they will affect you or someone you know. Last week, one of these incidents occurred right here at the University. Though this is not a rare occurrence, it was a tragic one. It was an incident that should not go unnoticed by the University community...
Bolick and Lewis advocated the use of vouchers, which enable students who forego public school a subsidy toward private school tuition, as a solution to inner city education problems...