Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans, of course, are about to attempt a George Aiken on the whole populist rebellion. Aiken was the Senator who suggested ending the Vietnam War by declaring victory and coming home. With the completion of their "Contract with America," the Republicans will say: we promised to do 10 things and we did them, or at least we came close. They will argue that they have shown how Washington politicians can effectively serve the public interest-even as they continue to argue that Washington is a fetid swamp that infects all who enter it, and that the Federal Government...
Their ranks are sure to grow. As the old guard of Crawford, Evangelista, Turlington and others begins to age, a host of newer faces is ready to supplant them. Among the hottest is Bridget Hall, a 17-year-old Texan who already has a lucrative Ralph Lauren contract. Nearly as omnipresent is the platinum-haired, preternaturally statuesque German model Nadja Auermann, featured on the cover of this month's W. Fashion watchers in New York last week, meanwhile, could hardly miss Irina, a striking 21-year-old Siberian, who appeared on the runway for no fewer than 18 shows...
Newt Gingrich kept his promise: the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives capped its first 100 days of power by passing the final bill in its "Contract with America": a five-year, $189 billion corporate- and personal- income-tax cut that Speaker Gingrich called the "crowning jewel" of the party's agenda. Democrats unsuccessfully assaulted the package as a budget-busting giveaway to the rich. The parties' volleys set the front lines for the upcoming battle in the more fiscally conservative Senate, where the fate of the tax cuts-and the rest of the House's nearly unprecedented...
...president of Brown Students for Choice Andrea Lee said she came to support women, and to "strongly talk out against the Contract [for America...
Thereal players may be back, but now the umps have been locked out. Pro baseball umpires are walking picket lines at stadiums where exhibition games are being played to protest. The umpires today balked at a contract proposal from the owners, but neither side would discuss the details. The umps have demanded a 53 percent raise over four years and other financial improvements. When their contracts expired at the end of 1994, the owners proposed cost-of-living raises that would increase salaries by just 2.7 percent this year. Umps expect the owners to start the regular season on April...