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The president's "cradle to grave" proposals (Pat Buchanan, The McLaughlin Group ) were likely to paralyze the Republicans, because nobody wants to go on record as being against child care (Paul Gigot, NewsHour ). Unless the Republicans slip out of the sleeper hold, Clinton's two initiatives will serve as "wedge issues" to separate the two parties in the minds of voters for the 1998 election (Tony Blankley, Late Edition ).
The domestic agencies were waiting for evidence of a domestic threat from sleeper cells within the United States.
In part, it did sound like a classic case of a movie that in two weeks went from being a sleeper to being overhyped, so that people who saw Blair Witch after, say, August 6 were led to believe they were about to see the greatest horror film ever made.
From Gloucester take East Main Street south along the harbor towards Eastern Point and visit the fantasy house, Beauport, which was built by Henry Davis Sleeper a prominent interior designer of the 1920s and 1930s, decorator to such stars as Joan Crawford and Fredric March.
In no time, Sarah orders him to put her up in a $1,700-a-night suite on a high floor of the Four Seasons (she's an ultrasensitive sleeper), provide a limousine, and be ready to work at whatever hour she feels the urge to inspire him.