Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those deluded Clinton supporters who thought the Arkansan was that man: The party's over. President Clinton is now politics as usual, at least as far as the national debt is concerned. This is despite a serious PR effort to make himself into a deficit hawk...
...series of coincidences, I turned up at a small reception in Sharon's honor the night after the announcement. I had no illusions that a hawk like Sharon would be at all pleased with the development. Yet I was eager to hear the rhetoric that Sharon would have to summon up to counter the agreement; it was, of course, a step so momentous and unexpected that it would be difficult to condemn out of hand...
...Mexico's moderate economic growth (2%) has also been spurred by an enterprising though less elaborate campaign to entice firms. Among the prize catches, mostly in the Albuquerque area, are companies ranging from a Hawk missile facility and an Olympus camera plant to a J.C. Penney telemarketing center. The state, which has a budget surplus of $100 million, can afford to offer generous tax incentives, and it assiduously cuts red tape. When Great American Stock relocated to Rio Rancho two months ago, it obtained a building permit in 11 days at a cost of $2,200; a comparable permit...
...journalistic fashion, Kinsley describes himself as still "one of the bigger Clinton enthusiasts around." The President has made mistakes, he says, but "the center of his trouble is that he is seriously addressing problems that the past two Presidents have ignored," notably the deficit (Mike is a confirmed deficit hawk). And in proposing an energy tax, Clinton is bucking "a political system that makes it almost impossible" to demand that the middle class make any kind of sacrifice...
...syphilis -- all the result of the invasion of thousands of "Natashas," female traders from Moldova and Belarus in the former Soviet Union. . "Natasha yat asagi!" (pronounced Natasha yatashi) is the new mating call: Turkish for "Natasha, jump into bed!" The women swarm in with suitcases of cheap goods to hawk by day. By night they sell their services. The town of Hopa, which three years ago had no hotels, now has 32. "The whole Black Sea region has become a huge brothel," says Kemal Unluer, a municipal , official in Trabzon (pop. 160,000). A night with "Natasha" can cost...