Word: burnered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other words, "reform" is on the back burner, and while Democrats and Republicans argue over who?s to blame for its failure, both are looking toward long-term crisis management rather than any dramatic policy shift. No wonder the Russian masses clamored for a last glimpse of Raisa Gorbachev. By comparison with the standard of living in today?s Russia, the death throes of communism presided over by her husband may look like a gilded...
...elements in the Ventura camp is whether Pitchfork Pat has a reformist bone in his body. "I haven't heard his political reform agenda," Minnesota Reform party chairman Dean Barkley told the Washington Post. "I still see him having that abortion issue and that social agenda on the front burner, and I still say if he continues to do that, he's not going to sell well with a number of the people in the Reform party...
...awareness is going down. An ironic possibility is that we've spent so much time obsessing about cholesterol levels that we've forgotten about blood pressure. That's kind of like throwing baking soda on a grease fire in the kitchen but forgetting to turn off the burner. Under normal circumstances, blood vessels in your body will last about 100 years. The extra wear and tear from high blood pressure makes them brittle before their time. Then cholesterol deposits start to build up over the damaged sections, restricting blood flow even more. The bottom line: high blood pressure...
...least they used to, and wife Annette Bening has already played in a couple of movies set in the White House "Mars Attacks!" "The American President"). Plus, Beatty is serious about politics and excited about an issue, campaign finance reform, that?s heading toward the front burner and makes Al Gore queasy. "Its tentacles reach into every other issue," he told the Times. "I fear we're getting closer to a plutocracy than we want to, and I believe that deep down the people want to do something about that." May he and the new chairman of the Reform Party...
...sudden Steve was getting all these gifts, getting all this clothing, getting all this attention. I guess I was jealous. I'm sure I was... I was the oldest and all that. Then all of a sudden it's gone. I got put on the back burner, you might...