Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be missed for two reasons. First, as one senior Commission civil servant put it, "Margaret Thatcher was the good enemy," meaning that tirades brought the E.C. public attention and gave it importance. Her opposition to European integration put it on the front pages. Second, Thatcher served as an alibi for other member governments that did not dare openly question E.C. President Jacques Delors's pressure for a quick-step march toward a supranational European government...
Seizaburo Sato, a foreign policy analyst and adviser to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, agrees. "The talk of constitutional constraints ^ and demons of the past is all one big alibi," he says. "We mustn't miss a golden opportunity to prove we recognize our responsibilities...
...finals -- even though one of them jumped twice. Winner of the spirited annual commemoration of Mark Twain's yarn The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Help Mr. Wizard, a homegrown Concord, Calif., bullfrog who jumped a quite respectable 19 ft. 3 in. The prize for the best alibi went to Koffman, who insisted that his big frogs, accustomed to the equatorial tropics, just got cold feet. Said he: "They're not used to the weather we've had here...
...principal partners have no coherent strategy for dealing with these and other mega-issues. Until now, the cold war provided an alibi...