Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usually it's a failure at damage control that trips up the Republicans. Whether the issue has been funding disaster aid or shutting down the government, the G.O.P. Congress has managed to double its losses--first by picking the wrong fights with Bill Clinton and then by not giving up...
Given the airline industry's fundamentals--rising prices and full planes--low-priced airlines should be in first-class condition. They're not. In the aftermath of the ValuJet disaster last year, air travelers began to redefine "no frills" airlines as "no safety" airlines. In the six-month period after...
The Speaker, in an interview, dismissed questions about his political survival as a "media frenzy" over a "road bump," in this case, the recriminations that followed the G.O.P.'s bungling of a disaster-aid bill. It is true that he appears in little immediate danger: the consequences of unseating the...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Anxious to keep its image as the regulation-slashing champion of American business intact, the Senate said today it will reject an international treaty on global warming unless the developing world signs on as well. Appeals by a data-spouting Undersecretary of State Timothy Wirth for industrialized countries...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Revolutions, it is said, eat their young. But sometimes they eat their leaders, and that is the issue on the table today in a closed-door meeting of House Republicans as they decide whether to challenge Newt Gingrich's leadership. Disgruntled sophomore Representatives, many of whom owe their...