Word: busting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...calm for a city just beset by Iraq. Banks were open, shops were doing brisk business and, except for several parliament buildings and the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (P.U.K.), the city bore almost no indications of fighting. What little evidence there was, however, spoke volumes. A bust of Jalal Talabani, the P.U.K. leader, was beheaded at a road junction. His picture had also been stripped from the front of the Kurdish parliament. And throughout the town, the P.U.K. flag had been ripped down, replaced by the bright yellow standard of the rival Kurdistan Democratic Party (K.D.P...
...criminal are natural enemies. Keats believes Moses put a bullet in his head; Moses thinks Keats betrayed him for the sake of a cheap bust. But as they drive around the desert, dodging machine-gun fire and stepping into plotholes of delirious implausibility, the two men get into tough-guy bonding at its wettest. Moses has no girlfriend, and Keats' has an ulterior agenda. After a while the standard gross-out talk of action movies--the gay-baiting gags and threats of fellatio--makes for an odd subtext. All these swaggering men who say they hate each other are really...
...brought Morris into the structure. Deputy chief of staff Ickes, his adversary since the 1960s, bollixed Morris wherever he could, refusing his hotel minibar bills and cutting the commission that Morris and his team earned on Clinton's enormous TV-ad budget. Last summer, when Morris urged Clinton to "bust the cap"--refuse federal matching dollars so he could spend limitless amounts on TV--he courted a conflict of interest a Clinton aide calls "obscene...
BRETT FAVRE 1995's MVP returns to the Packers clean and sober, with "Super Bowl or bust" fever...
...keeping their homes, their cars, their jobs and even some credit cards. The most popular provisions are in Chapter 7, which enables the overburdened to shed most of their IOUs; some debtors need only fill out a two-page form. Connoisseurs say the best places to go bust are Texas and Florida, where debtors can hold on to more of their assets than in any other states...