Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think [the requirements] are totally fair because you don't want people who are more casual about it to screw it up for the runners who are really serious," Cole says...
...Vancouver summit, Clinton remarked that "when the Japanese say yes to us, they often mean no." While many Japanese acknowledge their penchant for the ambiguous, the White House rushed to forestall any damage to the U.S.-Japan relationship. Clinton, said spokesman George Stephanopoulos, was only making "a casual comment about Japanese courtesy and etiquette." Even so, the Clinton-Miyazawa talks are unlikely to be a love feast. Coming to power after the end of the cold war, the Clinton Administration sees Japan not as an ally that must be indulged -- the Reagan-Bush view -- but as a nagging problem...
...Kind of like hitting off of a wet sponge," said Captain Jack Wylie of the fairways splotched by mud and casual water...
...That casual air of boys-will-be-boys struck many residents as inappropriate, given some of the complaints. One 16-year-old girl told the sheriff's department that a Spur had removed her clothes in a park during a sexual encounter, then refused to give them back until she had sex with other Spurs. She said her clothing was returned only after she screamed. She believes the commotion prevented a gang rape...
...huge hellfire" on health care, she adroitly replied, "You know, Mr. Chairman, Chicago looks a lot better as a result of that fire." Legislators always get a letter the next day -- and sometimes a picture -- thanking them for their thoughts on very specific subjects. "This is not a casual exercise," said a top White House aide. "She is making a set of judgments about where there are sensitivities and who will be natural allies...