Word: ajar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quickly waved inside by Bill Clinton's longtime doorkeeper, Nancy Hernreich. But the inner sanctum was empty. "Where's the President?" asked McLarty, a senior adviser. "What do you mean?" Hernreich responded with alarm. Before the two could panic, McLarty noticed the French door near Clinton's desk was ajar. Picking up the trail, he went outside. There on the South Lawn, about 30 yds. from the Oval Office, the President of the United States was standing in shirt-sleeves and tie, his hands gripping the shaft of a putter, his eyes fixed on a small white ball...
...exercising caution in introducing smart features; the industry is testing and retesting them to ensure that they live up to their promise and is carefully anticipating the degree of consumer demand for each item. It remembers only too well such failures as the talking dashboard ("Your door is ajar"), the tiny electrical wipers on side-view mirrors, the early fuel-injection systems that repeatedly stalled...
...racism. We saw more in the Supreme Court decisions of 1989, and the culmination was that veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1990. It seemed as if a little bit of bigotry was O.K. But if ever you tolerate a little bit, you have let the door come ajar. We saw that in the campaign of '88, with Willie Horton as an issue, and in the Jesse Helms race last fall. The civil rights constituency seems to have been weakened, and that is very, very troubling. I attribute it to the inattention the question received during the Reagan years...