Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...track. Budget Director Richard Darman and congressional leaders had made some progress in bargaining sessions that started Sept. 7. But the negotiations bogged down before the speech. So instead of making a triumphant announcement, Bush used his prime-time pulpit to sermonize: "Most Americans are sick and tired of endless battles in the Congress and between the branches over budget matters. It is high time we pull together and get the job done right...
...other is a King known for caution bordering on indecision and endless consultations before taking any action. His fiscal prudence is so extreme that he once became tearful on television while confessing that he could not balance his country's budget. He has for years conducted an exquisite balancing act among factions in his royal family, between the West and the Arab world, between the tug toward high-tech modernization and the impulse to preserve the semifeudal culture of his kingdom...
...really hoping to surprise a few people this weekend because those teams are of such an incredible caliber," Hafferty said. "If we continue to play at such a high level, heads will definetly turn. The opportunities are endless...
...course, that Bernard Samson, England's rough-cut intelligence agent in Berlin, was bamboozling communist Stasi operatives with great success until his beautiful and highborn wife Fiona defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less. This breach of marital etiquette caused Samson endless problems -- how to find a suitable nanny for the children, whether to marry his young mistress, how to prove that he himself was not a Soviet mole, and so on -- detailed moodily and lengthily in the two most recent novels of Deighton's double trilogy, Spy Hook and Spy Line...
...asbestos victims, illness is not the only indignity they have suffered. Tens of thousands of them have also endured a seemingly endless wait for compensation from the companies that produced the mineral that has been found to cause lung cancer and other diseases. The most immediate crisis involves the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust, formed in 1988 as the company emerged from bankruptcy reorganization. At the time, trust officials expected to handle 100,000 cases, with an average payment of $25,000 each, but so far, they have paid an average of $43,500 each on the first...