Word: carping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is no end to our effrontery. In Arizona a mutant Chinese grass carp, the sterile triploid amur, has been released into the ponds and water hazards of golf courses to keep the water free of entangling weeds lest golf balls be lost or the scenery spoiled. An African fish, the tilapia, cruises irrigation canals devouring any growth that might impede the water flow, but it endangers the Colorado River's sport fish. Coast to coast, European starlings darken the skies. A century ago, the first few were released in New York City by a reader of Shakespeare bent...
Bill Clinton may have enjoyed his vacation at the Bloodworth-Thomason's beach house in SUMMERLAND, California, but some wealthy neighbors are sneering about "our tax dollars at play." Huffed one neighbor: "Have you seen the Porta Potties along Padaro Lane?" Others carp that on the $200,000 salary Clinton will earn as President, he is not rich enough to buy a house in the area. Ronald Reagan, of course, lived up the road, but at least he wasn't a Democrat. Sighed a jaded millionaire as Clinton departed: "We survived Carter, and we'll survive...
...hungry pike as well as hungry humans, carp can be a most satisfying meal. But the freshwater fish has a way of fooling at least its piscine predators. According to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, when pike are placed in carp-filled ponds, the hunted fish begin to bulk up on food in the water until, after 12 weeks, they are simply too big for the pike to swallow. But the bigger carp expend more energy swimming. Once the pike threat is gone, the carp should revert back to their slimmer shape. Call them the Arnold Schwarzeneggers...
Media coverage had already moved from its gee-whiz phase to the relentless scrutiny that new candidates always suffer. I've hired all you guys, Perot complained last month, and now I'm getting a lousy press. His way of dealing with that was to carp about criticism and Republican "dirty tricks" rather than take initiatives that command positive attention. In early July, with the campaign sagging, Jordan confronted Perot. It isn't working, the veteran told the novice. Unless you let us make some basic changes, I'll quit. Perot wished Jordan well and said he should leave anytime...
...Yeltsin will have to produce results rather than just carp about the Kremlin. The future of nascent democracy not only in Russia but in many of the other 14 Soviet republics may ride on his success. His demonstrated popularity may boost his chances of negotiating with the Kremlin and the other republics a new union treaty that would give his government greater autonomy. That in turn might increase Yeltsin's ability to actually create the private-property, free-market economy he envisions, and to strip away most of the authority still exercised by Communist Party bureaucrats. Even then, however, Yeltsin...