Word: bedfellows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasingly fragile American family, character and more under siege. For example, a recent staff editorial in The Salient accused the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance of domesticating the Undergraduate Council into a queer lapdog and making Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 into a mere bedfellow, in a manner of speaking. It came as a terrible shock to all of us in the queer community--could someone please direct us to the glorious Harvard in which queer radicals and militant feminists have their...
...will Saddam make concessions? Not likely. The Iraqi leader may be miscalculating the extent to which President Clinton's domestic problems are affecting his military resolve. According to Newt Gingrich, an unusual Clinton bedfellow at the moment, Saddam "might be confused by the difference between headlines and the national will...
...came at the MacWorld Expo in Boston, with what will surely go down as one of our era's iconic images: Gates' tousle-haired grin looming from a giant video screen over the tiny figure of Apple "adviser" Jobs, who stood on the podium watching his strange bedfellow confirm Microsoft's decision to bail out the seminal Silicon Valley start...
...across the Fox international satellite television network, giving the media conglomerate a slice of some overseas markets it currently doesn't reach. Giuliani, who expended considerable political capital as Fox's man in the trenches, is already getting heat for securing something of a sweetheart deal for his political bedfellow Murdoch. The mayor is chipping in one of the city's non-profit educational channels to TIME Warner, which will use it for Fox News until more room can be made on its system. The payoff for New Yorkers: 24-hour news from the owners of the tabloid New York...
Gambling is a particularly strange bedfellow for our government. Historically, gambling has been outlawed on the grounds of immorality. It is purported that gambling induces people to squander their much-needed earnings, become addicted to accumulating money and neglect responsibilities to themselves, their families and society. Gambling is also a staple source of revenue for organized crime...