Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Digging Up Dirt...
...been publicly condemned two weeks before. When I returned, I was greeted with friendly slaps on the back, the criticism redirected toward the Times. But I will never forget the supreme irony of the moment: A writer and a fact-checker, I was dragged through the dirt by force of words and misrepresented facts! I will also never forget that my exoneration was little more than a miracle. I had no real evidence to prove that I hadn't meant exactly what the Times had printed--I was just fortunate that my editor even chose to believe...
Ironically, much of the trans-Mars traffic comes from a change not so much in science as in economics: the new craft are cheap--dirt cheap, by space standards. Engineers at last appear to have learned how to build a spaceship on a budget, and as the costs come down, the ships are going back up. The attitude among space engineers has always been that bigger spacecraft are better, and much bigger ones are better still. But bigger is much more expensive. In 1992 Goldin was recruited from private industry in the hope that he would bring a hardheaded bookkeeper...
Smith suffered a narrow loss in a January special election to fill the vacant Senate seat of Bob Packwood, who left under a cloud of scandal. In this bitter race, Smith has accused Tom Bruggere of hiring a San Francisco private-investigation firm to "dig dirt." Smith has tempered some of his more conservative positions for this race, but in a state that has elected moderate Senators for the past 30 years, the winner here should still be a moderating influence on Capitol Hill...
Secreted away behind an auto repair shop on a dirt lot, it's a windowless jungle of concrete, metal, wood, masonite and discarded furniture. The only ventilation comes from a garage-sized opening that forms the entrance...