Word: fleeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eager to flee Washington last week for a monthlong recess, Congress worked well past its deadline, arguing over how to finance a ten-year, $166 billion federal rescue plan for more than 500 insolvent savings and loans. The busted thrifts are losing about $20 million a day. When a compromise with the White House threatened to unravel Friday, it looked as if the lawmakers would leave town without solving the problem...
Dealing with a Raging Reptile. First of all, control your own reptilian response. Do not counterattack, and never flee. If the dinosaur attacks during a meeting, try gazing calmly at the beast. Co-workers will remember the outburst, not the reason for it. If the dinosaur is your boss, though, you must either learn to take abuse or make plans to leave. Whatever you do, never call for reinforcements. "A dinosaur whose subordinates have gone over his or her head is the most dangerous lizard in the jungle...
...scenario sounds all too familiar -- and implausible. In February 1988, when Noriega was indicted on drug charges, the Reagan Administration expected Noriega to flee in panic. He stayed. Two months later Washington dispatched 1,300 additional troops to U.S. bases in Panama, hoping their very presence would cow Noriega into submission. It didn't. Then the U.S. imposed limited economic sanctions, designed to choke off the country's cash flow. The dollar shortage fell hardest on Panama's middle class, who began to grumble about unreliable American allies. That allowed Noriega to rally support inside as well as beyond Panama...
...gruesome shooting and slashing rampage in Sonoma County, Calif., two weeks ago that left seven people dead and terrorized residents. Among the victims were Salcido's wife and two daughters, ages 4 and 1. A third daughter, 3, barely survived a throat slitting. Suspecting that Salcido might flee to his native country, U.S. officials alerted Mexican authorities, who caught him at a railroad station near Los Mochis...
...Mexico refused to turn over to the U.S. William Morales, a Puerto Rican nationalist convicted of illegally transporting explosives. Mexico called Morales a "political fighter for the independence of Puerto Rico" and let him flee to Cuba. The year before, West German officials refused to give up Mohammed Ali Hammadi, who was wanted for the execution of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem during a 1985 TWA hijacking. Bonn haled him instead into its own juvenile courts (Hammadi claims he was 16 at the time...