Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decade, federal food watchdogs napped to the sounds of this cacophony of false claims. The Food and Drug Administration virtually invited abuse by lifting its own long-standing ban against health promotions on food labels. But the deregulatory winds have shifted, and the sleeping sentry has awakened. In a blaze of whistle blowing, the FDA, headed by tough new commissioner David Kessler, is cracking down. The agency has begun seizing products with misleading labels, developing new guidelines for nutritional information and exposing hollow health claims...
Henry's eyes blaze with the memories of the human cost of that victory. Because 14-year-old Emmett Till, down from Chicago to visit relatives, allegedly whistled at a white woman, he was beaten, shot and then thrown into the Tallahatchie River in 1955. An all-white jury acquitted two white men of the killing. In 1963 Henry's N.A.A.C.P. associate, Medgar Evers, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson. His accused murderer, Byron de la Beckwith, was freed when all-white juries failed to reach a verdict. Now the state, seeking to atone...
...small triumphs. Susan Sarandon makes Hollywood a little safer for older actresses; she fearlessly plays next to someone 10 years younger. And at least Thelma and Louise stop short of emulating Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, who use their remaining ammunition to go out in a blaze of testosteronic glory. The movie may not have the impact of Fatal Attraction, but next time a woman passes an 18-wheeler and points her finger like a pistol at the tires, the driver might just put his tongue back in his mouth where it belongs...
...blaze is likely to rekindle the debate over the fate of the new embassy building nearby, which was deemed unusable in 1985 when U.S. security experts discovered that the structure was riddled with electronic listening devices planted by Soviet workmen. Congress has been unable to agree on whether to tear down the building, which has already cost taxpayers $300 million, or to build a spy-proof addition atop the existing structure. Now the embassy has no home at all, and the staff has temporarily set up offices in auditoriums on the 13-acre compound...
...family's greatest treasures. One shows Thom clowning around in a red-checked kaffiyeh under a camouflage net. Another portrays him standing in his tent, an M-16 on his arm and a cigarette hanging jauntily from his mouth. Several others show his light armored vehicle, hauntingly dubbed "Blaze of Glory." Painted on one side is a cartoon of an armed Saddam Hussein atop a camel, his body framed within the cross hairs. Says Dan Bartok, Thom's boss back when he spent a summer fighting fires for the U.S. Forest Service: "We figure he'd have pulled the mustache...