Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first two minutes, the two teams generated an astounding six penalties, four of which were for roughing. It took until the 4:35 mark before the two teams finally went five-on-five, but even that didn't change the flow of the game. It still resembled a brawl...
Whenever American politicians try to use trade as a carrot or a stick abroad, the result is almost always a domestic brawl. "There are simply too many voices and competing interests on our side to deliver a clear, coherent, timely message," says Paula Stern, a former head of the U.S. International $ Trade Commission. A fire-breathing anticommunist on Capitol Hill may want to starve America's enemies into submission, but a farm-state legislator would prefer to sell them his constituents' grain...
...last thing the President wants is a brawl with the Judiciary Committee over confirmation. The committee's chemistry is already explosive enough, with such liberals as chairman Joseph Biden and Ted Kennedy squaring off against conservatives Orrin Hatch of Utah and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina on issues like the crime and civil rights bills. "The Democrats aren't beating us anywhere right now, and we want to keep it that way," says a senior White House official. "The President has them beaten in approval ratings. When he vetoes a bill, we're able to sustain it. When he wants...
...school-yard brawl, the opening provocation was a taunt: "Independence!" But within 36 hours, the war of words between the republic of Slovenia and forces of the Yugoslav People's Army had escalated into a real fight, with the two sides trading lethal blows that left at least 40 dead and many more injured...
...election has already sparked spirited exchanges on the streets. In Moscow last week, a young man got into a verbal brawl after he asserted that Yeltsin had been "dishonest" because he had backed down in public on private deals he had made with Gorbachev...