Word: bugbear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ears. NATO ministers, meeting with Russian delegates Wednesday in Brussels, are concerned about the state of up to 16,000 tactical warheads still in Moscow?s silos, and want the Russian parliament to stop dragging its feet on ratifying the START II missile reduction treaty. Given that the traditional bugbear of NATO expansion is also on the table, Yeltsin's words look like less of a stumble ? and more a subtle bargaining ploy...
...Perot seriously as a political threat. In the latest TIME/CNN poll, 52% of the respondents have a generally favorable opinion of Perot, while only 50% have a similar opinion of Clinton personally (and many fewer approve of the job he is doing as President). On Perot's current major bugbear, the North American Free Trade Agreement, 63% agree with him that it will result in a loss of American jobs, vs. only 25% who believe with Clinton that it will create jobs...