Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton summoned several top aides, including two senior advisers from the National Security Council, to the South Lawn. As they stood by in suits, Clinton, in color-coordinated golf togs, proceeded to "blow off steam on Bosnia," according to one participant, while he moved around the green with a bag of balls, a putter and a pair of wedges. "It's hard to justify our diplomacy when our diplomacy isn't showing much," he complained loudly. Within days, the White House announced his decision to press for a stiffer NATO response to Serb aggression. Clinton is skilled with a driver...
...LADIES! LADIES! YOU GOTTA BUY THIS. THIS IS THE GREATEST INVENTION," Mariann Raftery says loudly, waving a plastic bag of prepared salad greens in the middle of the local A&P in Scarsdale, an affluent suburb just 15 miles north of New York City. Seven well-dressed Japanese women, pens poised over notebooks, nod politely, not entirely sure what to make of this latest piece of American ingenuity. "It's so convenient," Raftery explains. "And now they have cole slaw too." But there are so many more mysteries to ponder at the A&P. Michiko Takai wants to know: "Which...
SADDAM HUSSEIN His daughters bag Dad, defecting along with top Iraqi aides...
...Clinton adviser even fears an information-warfare strike before next year's presidential election; one of his jobs, he says half-jokingly, is to find a "Cabinet member to blame if something really bad happens.") Senior officers say that in the future, the President's black bag containing the instructions for launching a nuclear strike may also have inside it the codes for U.S. infobombs...
...with dealmakers, seems to amuse her. A pianist is playing Gershwin songs as Bjork takes a seat at a table and divulges to a reporter her secret way of getting quicker service at snobby restaurants. Recently, when she was eating out, Bjork explains, "I had an apple in my bag, and so I picked it up and started eating it. There was a waiter there like this!"-she snaps her fingers. "So if you bring your own sandwich and you start eating it, they'll come quickly...