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The bi-partisan McCain-Feingold campaign reform bill, which would ban unregulated "soft money" donations, and which has been languishing in the Senate for quite a while, got a new lease on life Tuesday when President Clinton threatened in a letter to Majority Leader Trent Lott to force Congress to stay in session to vote on the measure.
Maybe some old hatboxes labeled "Confidential: Vietnam" languishing on a dusty shelf in a dusty closet.
For the recommendations languishing, see Charles Allen interview (Sept.
British design historian Clarke delivers a "heavily academic cultural critique of Tupperware" (Rachel Hartigan, the Washington Post ), but all the critics can talk about is the story of how Brownie Wise, a struggling single mother, turned the languishing line of plastic containers into a booming success via one simple idea: the Tupperware Party.
Armed with almost absolute powers, Solon produced a constitution advancing the ideal of equality before the law for citizens of all classes, set up a trial-by-jury system, freed the peasantry from debt to landowners, and introduced far-sighted reforms that revived the languishing economy.