Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort didn't start yesterday. Five years ago, when candidate Clinton was first running for office, he used to flay President Bush for going easy on China and warn that "if other nations refuse to play by our trade rules, we'll play by theirs." China and its commercial partners wanted to be sure that Clinton would never make good on his word...
...Chinese were stunned by what appeared to be a departure from the U.S. policy of not having official contacts with Taiwan. "The Lee visit was a failure of their own guys to make an imprint [in Washington]," says James Lilley, who was U.S. Ambassador to China under George Bush. "So their bosses told them to get off their asses and start moving...
...Marxist-inspired People's Revolutionary Party received support from the Soviet Union, China and Cuba (Che Guevara once spent several months training with them), the obscure group never amounted to more than a nuisance. But the experience did enable Kabila to forge a valuable connection with another African guerrilla bush fighter, Yoweri Museveni, who is now the President of Uganda. That friendship would one day be critically important...
Kagame realized, however, that the rebels could not fight Mobutu alone. This opinion was shared by Kagame's close personal friend, President Museveni in neighboring Uganda, an implacable foe of Mobutu's. So Museveni put Kagame in touch with his old friend and fellow bush fighter, Kabila. The two men cut a deal: in exchange for being given command over the 2,000 Zairian Tutsi soldiers, Kabila agreed to conduct a broadly based revolution aimed at toppling Mobutu from power...
...happens on the field. Between innings, a man walks up to the home-plate ump, leading a pig with a bag of fresh baseballs on its back. Once, a player from an opposing team was offended by the pig and turned to the umpire and said, "That is so bush league," and the ump said, "This is the bush leagues...