Word: dicker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...health care, child care and the environment. Last week Clinton complained that his budget requests for education and youth programs--$871 million for summer jobs, $260 million for tutors--"ought to be beyond all debate." He knows better; in Washington, everything's on the table. But he can't dicker and deal because he's on the table...
...firmly controlled, even secretive, yet people seem to admire him. He is sharp and decisive, says what is on his mind, accepts diplomatic criticism when he considers it right and rejects it when he doesn't. "What you hear is what you get," says O'Neill. "He doesn't dicker or pussyfoot...
...Netanyahu's belief that Arafat was cheating on the accords. Catering to his own extremists, he helped unleash a brutal spasm of violence last September when Netanyahu, asserting Israeli authority in East Jerusalem, opened a tunnel near Islamic holy sites in the Old City. When Netanyahu was ready to dicker over withdrawal from Hebron in earnest, Arafat procrastinated in hopes of gaining more concessions...
Bush's stunning proposals please Gorbachev, but Moscow still wants to dicker...
...often weren't terribly useful. So the two sides would go back to the one subject where they could accomplish something -- arms control -- and the exercise became increasingly esoteric and rarefied. Like medieval theologians debating how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, the statesmen would % dicker over how many warheads would be allowed on a Soviet ICBM and how many cruise missiles would be allowed on an American bomber. Nuclear diplomacy also became more controversial because it involved cooperation and compromise with a feared and hated enemy. For example, the political opposition to SALT II, completed...