Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Henry Cisneros and Federico Pena leaving the Cabinet, Clinton was under pressure to name a Hispanic to a top job. Now Richardson will have to give up the derring-do of his foreign escapades for the more refined cocktail diplomacy of a United Nations envoy. But the U.N. post could well be a launching point for the final adventure Richardson has always craved--being Governor of New Mexico...
...Flaps and Seals," students study the finer points of surreptitiously opening and resealing letters. "Tradecraft" course work includes picking up messages from dead drops, clandestine photography of enemy documents and the use of disguises. In another tutorial, a cocktail party is staged where students learn how to strike up a conversation with a potential source. Sometimes even the wives of recruits are taught how to spot foreign agents tailing them...
...powerful melody and let it work its magic. Their sophomore production and first full-length record, Mass Teen Fainting, is a blend of potent songs, merging a fifties surf-garage feel with the driving energy of power pop. Their concoction is a Beach-Boys-meets-Shonen-Knife puree, and cocktail leaves the listener with a smile and a tune...
...Live has a viewpoint, and every viewpoint gets a hearing. Howard Stern may be as influential as Peter Jennings. MSNBC fills its airtime with a corps of interchangeable "contributors" who offer seat-of-the-pants opinions on whatever the big story of the day happens to be. It's cocktail party chat passing for journalism...
Patients who aren't covered face a tougher challenge. More than 40 million Americans are uninsured, and some who are insured aren't adequately covered. Some HMOs, for example, consider the cocktail therapy too expensive to offer their clients. To fill at least part of the gap, Congress in 1990 created the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). Each state administers its portion of the $165 million budget as it sees fit, however. States like New York and California, which supplement the federal money with state funds, are among the most generous, covering more than 50 different medications. Georgia, by contrast...