Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's because in endless meetings, Gingrich graciously solicited their ideas, and even accepted some of them. But he also made clear that a bill was inevitable, that the numbers would be huge, and that they stood to suffer far more by opposing it and being frozen out than by playing along. The hospital executives were amazed by Gingrich's mastery of numbing issues like reimbursement formulas. And they were delighted by his willingness to buy them off. He protected doctors' fees and won the endorsement of the American Medical Association. He satisfied the American Association of Retired Persons...
...reassure the U.S. public that the G.I.s are not being sent on an endless and escalating mission, General Shalikashvili makes a point of ticking off all the things the troops will not do. "The implementation force will not be responsible for the conduct of humanitarian operations," he says. "It will not be a police force. It will not conduct nation building. It will not be a disarmament force and chase after people to collect weapons and whatnot. And it will not be responsible for the movement of refugees." In other words, this time there will be no "mission creep," Pentagonese...
...every tabloid, over cover lines like "The Men Who Fight to Share Her Bed," or that she's been "Dibbs" and "Squidgy" to a succession of aristocratic hunks. It's not even her claustrophobic, body-centered life-style, divided as it is between colonic irrigations and workouts and the endless trying on of clothes. The problem with Di, and the root of the British royalty's entire crisis, is that the only honest description of her occupation would have to be "hired womb...
...ridiculous rhetoric of the full-page ad didn't surprise us--over the course of the fall we have seen an endless number of ads and posters asking us if were ready to change the rules of the game, to earn the future, or to participate in a paradigm shift. But this ad stood out in the morass of meaningless slogans and reminded us that their emptiness is in no way innocuous...
...HARD TO SAY WHAT WAS MORE SHOCKING ABOUT THE death of Elisa Izquierdo--the endless savagery inflicted on her body and mind, or the stubborn inaction of the New York City agencies that were repeatedly informed of her peril. But while the murder of Elisa by her mother is appalling, it is hardly unexpected. In the death zones of America's postmodern ghetto, stripped of jobs and human services and sanitation, plagued by AIDS, tuberculosis, pediatric asthma and endemic clinical depression, largely abandoned by American physicians and devoid of the psychiatric services familiar in most middle-class communities, deaths like...