Word: forkfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Money, Yeltsin has discovered, talks. He has made so many similar promises to workers, teachers, soldiers and pensioners that last week he had to order Russia's disapproving central bank to fork over $1 billion to help pay for it all. In the past five weeks Yeltsin's appeal, according to most of Russia's unreliable opinion polls, has climbed steadily to equal or overtake his rivals...
...conservative 46-year-old Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. And the change in policies that his country will now pursue will have consequences affecting half the globe. Sometimes statesmen stumble blindly over an epochal crossroads they do not know is there. Others are given the chance to see the fork in the road ahead and decide deliberately which way to go. Folly, wrote historian Barbara Tuchman, is when leaders knowingly choose the wrong path...
...lawyers and lobbyists and accountants, paid at least as much as the average taxpayer. In fact the rich already pay more. The Joint Committee on Taxation, which is controlled by Republicans in Congress, says the best-paid 1% of Americans, who declare more than $219,770 in annual income, fork over 27% of it to the irs, in contrast to 5% paid by Americans earning the median income of $32,364. Forbes says he knows these numbers. But rather than correct his supporters, he nods and flashes that endearing smile...
...crowd's good-natured cheering seems to indicate that the majority are rooting for the cons not to get trampled. Warden Burl Cain hopes his men, with their sometimes accomplished bull wrestling and barrel jumping, are leaving a lasting impression. "These inmates don't have horns and a fork and a tail," says Cain. "The rodeo shows that they can be rehabilitated--that they're real people...
...World War II Berlin stories, as well as others written during the '40s and '50s after he immigrated to the U.S. And woe to the poseur whose influence is based solely on personality. From Spring in Fialta: "Lean and arrogant, with some poisonous pun ever ready to fork out and quiver at you, and with a strange look of expectancy in his dull brown veiled eyes, this false wag had, I daresay, an irresistible effect on small rodents...