Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strapped for cash is the Soviet Union? So strapped that Moscow bent its long-standing opposition to apartheid last week by agreeing to sell $5 billion of diamonds over the next five years through an international cartel controlled by South Africa's De Beers Consolidated Mines. A Swiss subsidiary of De Beers will handle the sales and thus permit Moscow to deny that it is dealing directly with South Africa...
Washington's refusal to deal with Hanoi since 1975, when the last helicopter lifted off the roof of the Saigon embassy, was designed to isolate the country when it was bent on expanding its sway over its Southeast Asian neighbors. But when Vietnam withdrew the bulk of its army of occupation from Cambodia last September, it removed the last major barrier to recognition. As Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who was once national coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, noted last week, "A month after Tiananmen Square, we talked to the leaders of China; we talked to Pinochet...
...icons like the Santa Fe look, sun-dried tomatoes and goat-cheese pizza have seen their day. Such ordinary pleasures as gardening, milk shakes and fried chicken and mashed potatoes are acceptable once more. Exclusive name brands no longer carry the same cachet or inspire the same hell-bent-for-leather efforts to pay for them, because nobody really expects anyone to be impressed. Says Martin Puris, chief executive of the Ammirati & Puris advertising agency in Manhattan: "The trend is pragmatism...
...last May, reporters asked him if he felt any sympathy for Mulroney's problems with nationalism. He ducked the question with a long answer praising "national honor" but rejecting "negative" forms of "supernationalism." In fact, Gorbachev's troubles -- with at least three of the 15 Soviet republics bent on full independence and most others demanding sovereignty -- are far more severe than the Canadian Prime Minister...
...notion of a girl's right to choose, so parental consent or notification has been a comparatively easy sell: 33 states have passed such laws. By forcing the pro-choice movement to challenge this trend, the pro-life movement has been able to paint its opponents as antifamily, bent on weakening the bond between the generations, encouraging teenage promiscuity and fostering a libertine attitude toward sex that results in more than 400,000 teenage abortions a year...