Word: guts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first president of the 21st century, Bill Clinton cares about the future--and that means us. From establishing the Americorps service program, to protecting young children from nicotine addiction, to focusing on the problem of teen pregancy (in policies, not only in speeches), to stopping Republican attempts to gut regulations that will protect our environment for the future--Bill Clinton has demonstrated a commitment to our generation that reaches far beyond appearing on MTV. He will not let student aid be trampled as long as he is in the White House...
...corporate giver to congressional election races. UPS poured $2.6 million into House and Senate campaigns in 1993 and 1994 and kicked in nearly $500,000 more in the first seven months of 1995. Now UPS may be after its biggest trophy ever. It is leading a corporate charge to gut enforcement programs at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to protect workers from injuries...
...Most people associate guilt with Catholic teachings on sexuality," Landry said lightheartedly. "But most of our conceptions of guilt are morally implied--a feeling in your gut, a sense of breaking laws or rules. And in large part how we look at guilt is determined by what generation...
...bacteria that should have decayed their tissues couldn't survive. Preserved were not just the hard-shelled creatures familiar to Darwin and his contemporaries but also the fossilized remains of soft-bodied beasts like Aysheaia and Ottoia. More astonishing still were remnants of delicate interior structures, like Ottoia's gut with its last, partly digested meal. (Read "The Ever Evolving Theories of Darwin...
...does not, what are the consequences? A test case of supreme significance is at hand. If domestic opposition somehow prevents Clinton from sending the troops to Bosnia that he has promised, U.S. leadership in Europe will collapse, along with NATO itself, in all likelihood. That would gut an alliance that has lasted sturdily for almost half a century. Ideally, the U.S. would exert a stable, reliable force throughout the world that is something like gravity. If NATO breaks up over Bosnia, and the U.S. keeps retreating from leadership, international relations could be a little like earth with the gravity turned...