Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with him, he becomes upset. But as she starts to push him away from her life, he becomes more insightful, telling Janie that she's "shy and clumsy" and that she makes her life "harder than it has to be." Ironically, Janie uses Marty's advice and insight to dump him, as she realizes that they don't fit together and that she needs to live on her own, without her parents and without a boyfriend, but with her own talents and sense of motivation...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton ordered an investigation into a report that the Army blew up an Iraqi ammunitions dump despite a CIA warning that it might contain chemical weapons -- then covered up what it had known when Gulf War veterans began to complain of serious health problems. If confirmed, this would indicate that for the first time that negligence by the CIA and U.S. military was a factor in exposing veterans to poison gas during the Gulf War. The Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses has 60 days to examine the report, made public yesterday. While the Pentagon...
...have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done." Translation: the ends justify the means. When criticized about her role in the crude U.S. campaign to dump U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Albright responds, "At times it was a little messy, but I'm really proud of what happened there. I think we delivered to the U.S. and the U.N." She justifiably claims credit for sweet-talking the U.N. into blessing Washington's invasion of Haiti, the first time the U.N. ever approved a U.S. military intervention...
...service's 410,000 enlisted men and women. His office is situated in the Pentagon's prestigious E-Ring, right across the hall from General Dennis Reimer, the four-star Army Chief of Staff. The Army denied the charges on McKinney's behalf, and has no plans to dump his video...
...longstanding financial woes. TIME?s Ann Blackman notes that the idea has energized Washington residents who had begun to think that the District could not manage to solve its intractable problems: ?There?s a chance to make the city into the gem it should be, instead of the dump it is now. The potholes from last year have yet to be repaired, and are now filling up with this year?s snow.? If Congress agrees, the resulting law effectively would reverse the 1974 agreement which granted the District control over key aspects of city financial and administrative management, the Washington...