Word: drownings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President makes a sound case that America's budgetary red ink in the long run will drown all hope of economic progress. To about 230 businessmen invited last Wednesday to the White House, Clinton gave some dire predictions about the U.S. "Ten years from now, if we don't change present policies": budget deficits exceeding $650 billion a year, or more than double even today's bloated figures; and a national debt equal to 78% of the country's total output of goods and services. But to many people that might seem a rather dry statistical apocalypse and not exactly...
...When you get a government position like this one, it's like drinking from a fire hose," Nye said. "There's a gush of information and right now I'm trying not to drown...
...child molester, Dodd showed a gift for rebuking the justice system. With each arrest, he passed like a cold breeze through the court system and mental health institutions and wound up back where he had started: hunting children in public parks and devising new schemes to kidnap, mutilate, drown, strangle or suffocate them. Time and again, the courts reduced the charges, suspended the sentence, offered therapy over incarceration. "Each time I entered treatment, I continued to molest children," he told the court. "I liked molesting children and did what I had to do to avoid jail so I could continue...
...Advising should be more aggressive," Delgado says. "Harvard is sort of a swim-or-drown place. The availability of counseling services shouldn't be in that same arena...
Everywhere, there are lessons in contrasts. In Room 212, Gloria Sheila McCart ney's fourth-graders sing "the gospel train is acomin' " and drown out the incessant scream of sirens from Alabama Avenue. The rosebushes planted outside were hacked to bits by vandals; but inside, preschoolers nurse acorns in paper cups and watch for signs of growth. This is a neighborhood where a child could get stabbed over a pair of sneakers; but the students of Malcolm X Elementary dress in uniform, the boys in white shirts and red ties, the girls in plaid jumpers. "If we don't hold...