Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After all, the new culture isn't all angst and evil. Was it not the venerable Bill and Ted themselves who commanded, "Be excellent to each other?" Words to live by, without a doubt. So, brothers and sisters, let us all join cable lines, flip on MTV, and together chant the mantra of our generation...
That hard line showed up first in the form of a Yeltsin flip-flop on the notion of an expanded NATO. During an August visit to Warsaw, he had declared that Polish membership in the alliance "would not be counter to Russian interests." That was taken as a green light for drawing much of the old East bloc into the alliance, and Western policy planners immediately went to work on mechanisms for membership. First to join would be the so-called Visegrad countries -- Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary -- probably by the end of the '90s. Then might come...
...only advise utmost caution when thinking about moving NATO eastward," says former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. "We should not exclude Russia." Among the few remaining advocates of early enlargement are the hapless Central European countries with better reasons than Russia to fear for their security. Yeltsin's flip-flop caused acute anxiety in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest. "Poland's striving toward NATO is irreversible," said Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski. "We are against placing Poland in the gray zone between East and West...
...also said his re-entry was "not a campaign ploy" to grab headlines and that the flip-flop probably hurt his contest because about two-thirds of all votes are cast on the first day of polling, which was Tuesday...
...time of the play, as if some unintentional Victorian double-entendre is enough to send sex-starved Harvard students running to see whatever amateur production is listed. Please! We might not have cable TV, but if we want to see more-than-vague suggestion we can always just flip on NYPD Blue...