Word: cresson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sometimes inaccurate and can easily be created out of thin air. On the other hand, its greatest asset is speed. The research process can be shortened from months to hours and maybe even minutes. But you should still go to Minot, N.D., for that crucial land deed or to Cresson, Pa., to find an old newspaper article. The Internet can act as a valuable lead to start research but not to finish it. CHRIS J. LEWIE Hilliard, Ohio...
...unrestrained growth and infinite success is over. The Japan that is experiencing its most profound dislocations since its resurrection from World War II hardly looks any longer like the all-devouring Godzilla of Western myth. Former French Prime Minister Edith Cresson's publicly voiced fear of Japan's "desire to conquer the world" sounds off-key, and American workers can stop their bitter jokes about how they will all be laboring for Japanese bosses...
Mitterrand, whose reputation as a political genius had already been tarnished by his appointment of Edith "Anglo Saxons are homosexuals and Japanese are ants" Cresson as Prime Minister last year, has seen his ploy--and his popularity--explode in his face...
...govern quietly, and she did not go quietly. Sharp-tongued Prime Minister Edith Cresson, 58, drew fire while in office for having called the Japanese "ants" and saying that one-quarter of Anglo-Saxon men are homosexuals. In her letter of resignation, she complained that she had not been allowed to "fully complete" her mission...
...Cresson -- scorned at the end of her tenure as "Madame 19%" for her abysmal standing in the popularity polls and her party's devastating election results -- had to take much of the blame. Near record unemployment of 9.9% accounted for the rest...