Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multitude of ailments. Noncompetitive salaries have made it difficult to retain top researchers or hire replacements. Political meddling has stopped some areas of investigation and assumed control of others. A recent monitoring of ethical infractions, concerns about allegations of fraud, and new conflict- of-interest regulations have combined to drag down morale. The Bush Administration let the situation worsen by leaving the NIH without a director for nearly two years. At least three men turned the job down, some protesting the Administration's abortion "litmus test...
...physicist Alexander Simon has everything, including the Theory of Everything. His new, Nobel-size hypothesis ties up the movement of the tides and the invisible violence of the atom, the phenomenon of light and the drag of gravity. If only this young Einstein were a think-tank nerd, he could insulate himself from the challenges of academic inquiry and worldwide publicity...
...find that it gives up some of the ideals that made them choose the party. But at this point, more is at stake than just losing the White House for the sixth time in the last seven elections. If Bush coasts to the presidency without a struggle, he could drag along both a Republican majority in the Senate and significant gains in the House...
...feels that the perpetuation of the happy drunk leprechaun stereotype is equivalent to an ethnic slur, and therefore encourages the Harvard community to celebrate March 17th not by drinking beer, but by engaging in more culturally appropriate activities, such as reading Yeats or, perhaps, watching John Wayne physically drag a woman's body through the Irish countryside in "The Quiet Man." Now, how's that for "rich and beautiful Irish culture...
Fortunately, Bush knows better than anyone else the fragility of exaltation and has warned about it since his Inauguration. Even better, Barbara plans to drag him off to a fishing vacation as soon as possible. Herbert Hoover, who never had Bush's luck or touch, nonetheless left some pertinent wisdom for Presidents. He urged them to go fishing at every opportunity. "It is discipline in the equality of men," said Hoover. "For all men are equal before fish...