Word: chop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nixon made when he became the first U.S. premier to pay his respects to our One Billion Red brothers, and this week's trip should be replete with pathetic scenes of inter-ideological friendship, numerous pictures of Nancy and Ronald deftly maneuvering their chopsticks over bowls of rice and chop suey, and enough symbolism to make even TV executives retch...
...always recognized. By and large, traditional power has tended to slip from the grasp of special-interest groups. Pulp and paper companies no longer control Maine; Anaconda Copper has long since closed its "hospitality rooms" in Montana's state capital at Helena; Florida's rural "pork chop gang" must now share power with the arroz con polio and corned-beef crowds, and it has been quite a while since anyone has accused U.S. Steel and the Pennsylvania Railroad of manipulating the Keystone State...
...Alderman Roman Pucinski became the eighth of them openly to endorse the Republican. He said he could not ask his present workers to support Washington, who has pledged to abolish the patronage power of the party machine. Said Pucinski: "Why should I give him the guillotine with which to chop off my head?" At one rally in a Democratic neighborhood last week, formerly staunch Democrats serenaded Epton with a campaign song to the tune of Bye Bye Blackbird...
...game for dinner parties. I ask presidential critics of either far right or left what they will do next year if the economy really is better and the nukes are still in their silos. One fellow nearly choked on his lamb chop. Most have only a second or two of panic before they assemble their rebuttals on Reagan's "luck" (the oil glut) and "providence" (Brezhnev died). Who was the guy who wrote that if we've got to have a lucky...
...legislation would chop through the regulatory thicket that has helped to prop up prices. It would deregulate all gas by January 1986 and, in a stunning departure from the Administration's free-market principles, would exercise a rarely used federal power by throwing open long-term contracts between producers and pipelines for immediate renegotiation...