Word: daring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late Cos must close a business deal and get a physical so his family will have life insurance. Then he must convince his daughter, who has also entered the twilight zone, that "life is all there is." In response she utters the year's top supersloppy double dare: "I'll get back into my body if you'll get back in yours." Darned if he doesn't. Dad, you see, is not dead yet. But his movie...
Accuse her of allowing herself to be bullied by an unruly Congress, and she takes offense: "Nobody bullies me. I dare anybody to come here and tell me what to do, because I feel I do not have any political debts to pay, and I only want to be President for one term...
...regarding what he called "the Awful German Language," and it is probably safe to say that the popular appraisal of the tongue has not moved far since. A fair verdict? As Germany emerges from the partial eclipse known as "the Postwar," the question has fresh urgency: politicians, businessmen and, dare it be whispered, even journalists now need German more than they have for half a century. One of the hallmarks, after all, of great-power status is that others -- even those who hail from other great powers -- must learn to speak your language...
...hear some campaign words played back to me, and it's been fairly intense," Bush remarked at a press conference Friday. Under repeated taunting, however, he compared himself with Abraham Lincoln, who had once said, "We must think anew." Even then, Bush turned down what amounted to a dare to say, in so many words, "We have to raise taxes." Nonetheless, he gave a rationale for accepting a boost: new revenues, said Bush, are a necessary part of any compromise package to cut the budget deficit, and a lower deficit in turn is essential to bring down interest rates...
...dare you even think of attaching strings to your aid, says Eliahu Ben- Elissar, an influential Shamir aide. "We are not a colony." Ben-Elissar is right. Israel is not a colony -- but neither is it an indigent client entitled to assistance as a matter of right against American interests...