Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prime Minister in the post-Yeltsin era. No single member of the triad can claim supremacy over the others, and none trusts his two colleagues. Watching, and ready to join in when the opportunity arises, are two more potential contenders. Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov would welcome a second crack at the presidency; meanwhile, Chernomyrdin and other senior figures are certain that Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov has presidential ambitions...
...good news is that the Philippine government has started to crack down on dynamite and cyanide fishing. The bad news is that those destructive practices are just the latest in a string of insults to reefs, and not necessarily the most serious. Far more troubling to biologists is the fact that groupers and other valuable reef fish are being harvested at a critical point in their reproductive cycle. With satellite navigation systems to guide them, fishing boats are homing in on areas where large numbers of the fish have gathered to spawn. Already, says University of Hong Kong fish biologist...
Never mind the furor over the murder of rap star Tupac Shakur and the recriminations that are sure to erupt over the civil trial of a certain ex-football player. The hottest topic in black America, bar none, is whether the CIA was responsible for introducing crack cocaine to the ghetto. This idea is, of course, a hardy perennial among conspiracy theorists, who blame every plague that afflicts the black community on racist government plots. But this time it is not so easy to write off the talk as paranoid mumbo jumbo for two reasons: it springs, for once, from...
...among its victims. Today, in every elementary school of 200 pupils or so, three or four youngsters are likely to suffer from it. Howard Hughes' symptoms included an insistence on having a germ-free environment and all his windows permanently sealed. The schoolchildren are more inclined to count cracks in the blacktop (for them, "Step on a crack, break your mother's back" is frighteningly literal) or meticulously arrange their crayons in neat rows, again and again, to avert some imagined catastrophe...
...Republican presidential coalition crack up in 1996? No, it was already unraveling in 1992, after hinting at weakness earlier. Republican strategists simply didn't understand what was occurring. They insisted their coalition was still young--born on Election Day 1980, when Reagan came to power. In fact, its birth certificate dates back to Nixon's election in 1968, when the South tilted Republican and rescripted presidential politics. By the late 1980s, this coalition, wedded to old ideas, attack strategies and issues, was wearing out. If Michael Dukakis, a caricature of ineffective, low-blood-count Northeastern liberalism, had not allowed himself...