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Answer for the clue "United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828) ", 7 letters:
clinton

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Clinton is an English surname, indicating one's ancestors came from English places called Glympton or Glinton . Clinton has frequently been used as a given name in the United States since the late 19th century. Baron Clinton is a title of peerage in England, ...

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Population (2000): 23347 Housing Units (2000): 8899 Land area (2000): 23.843577 sq. miles (61.754578 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.244838 sq. miles (0.634127 sq. km) Total area (2000): 24.088415 sq. miles (62.388705 sq. km) FIPS code: 14420 Located within: ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clinton \Clin"ton\ William Jefferson Clinton, b. 1946. The 42d president of the United States, from 1993-. Also known as Bill Clinton . [Prop.] Hillary Rodham Clinton, b. 1947. Attorney and wife of Bill Clinton, the 42d president of the United States. [Prop.] ...

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Clinton administrations the two groups were virtually indistinguishable.

Clinton administrations, when Iraq was weak and the sanctions were strong, there was little evidence that regionalists could use to make a case.

The Clinton and Bush administrations repeatedly tried to get the Syrians to shut down the smuggling, but to no avail.

Both the Clinton and Bush administrations have repeatedly pressured Syria to stop the smuggling or bring it under the U.

The Saudis were repeatedly disappointed by American claims to be making a major effort at regime change--first under the Bush administration and then at least twice during the Clinton administration--only to find that the United States would not use all of its resources and clout to make the effort successful.

But if any prospective or actual appointees became too bold, Clinton abandoned them quickly.

This would be like President Bush instructing Attorney General John Ashcroft to hold a press conference announcing that President Clinton had appointed Mohammed Atta to be secretary of the Department of Transportation after being told Atta was a Muslim terrorist.

Zon and Stan Berg, the superintendents of the Attica and Clinton Correctional Facilities respectively, as well as their staffs, for always displaying the utmost professionalism and courtesy.

THE SPRING OF 2000 JOEL WAS transferred from the solitary cell at Attica to the protective custody wing at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.

It is important to recognize that the debate within the Clinton administration over Iraq--which virtually paralleled similar debates both at the end of the Bush, Sr.

Friend and ally on the Felding-Roth board of directors was Clinton Etheridge, a successful and prominent New York lawyer who had pretensions to scientific knowledge.

Clinton also empanelled two grand juries to consider criminal indictments.

A recently released University of Minnesota study estimates that, for example, 93 per cent of felons of all races favored Bill Clinton in 1996.

The huge old three story mansion at 416 Clinton was in the heart of an old residential section of Brooklyn just a few blocks from the Ft. Greene project.

Korea that killed several million people, that Johnson and Nixon carried out a war in Indochina in which perhaps 3 million people died, that Reagan invaded Grenada, Bush attacked Panama and then Iraq, and Clinton bombed Iraq again and again.