Word: exited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mistakes. Rogers had built a reputation as Sununu's enforcer, and was expected to be his boss's eyes and ears in the 1992 re- election campaign. But the chief of staff alienated so many Bush supporters over the past five months that damage control became necessary. Exit Rogers. Already, Sununu is having trouble finding a replacement. Said one official: "Sununu has managed to poison relationships with a lot of people, mainly through Ed. So guess who goes...
Most (but not all) of the acts were saturated with racist and sexist remarks. One team of performers brought a woman from the audience onto the stage, verbally abused her and then abandoned her to exit the stage and return, mortified, to her seat...
These are the longest days. Time moves in slow motion. An entire world waits with shallow breath, and the news never ends. Snippets of hope are dashed almost as quickly as they appear, only to be succeeded by fresh rumors of a peaceful exit. In a sense, it is all familiar. End games fascinate. In school, where we studied them attentively, the chapters were invariably titled "The Drift Toward War." The conclusions, too, were nearly uniform: If only there had been more time; if only the antagonists had understood one another better; if only the crisis had been nipped...
They are coming in droves, a tide of migration that does not stop. Every few hours another El Al airliner wings into Ben Gurion airport from transit points in Europe, bringing 2,000 or 3,000 or 3,500 Soviet Jews each day. Since Moscow substantially eased exit rules in late 1989, the wave of immigrants has brought 185,000 Jews to Israel, the most since 1949, when the country was one year old and Holocaust survivors were fleeing the killing grounds of Europe. Before the flood stops, it is expected to deposit 1 million people in Israel...
...with fewer handouts?" asks Hasan al-Ebraheem. The answer is that nothing will change unless everything changes. And the way for everything to change is to take a country that had more than 2 million people before August and recreate it with only 1 million. "The only way to exit the trap of dependency," says Tareq al- Suwaidan, the opposition leader, who wholeheartedly shares the planners' dreams of a new Kuwaiti demography, "is to make it impossible for people to be reliant on others. Most of those who have done the real work in the past will have...