Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...word of his capture leaked out, Mexican newspapers and politicians let loose a torrent of protest against high-handed Yanqui tactics. "The intervention in Mexican territory, once again, is extremely dangerous for the sovereignty of the nation," complained the national daily Excelsior. Unfazed by the diplomatic heat, DEA agents hint that more snatches may be in the works. They plan to pay a bounty of more than $100,000 to the shadowy team that spirited Alvarez Machain out of Mexico. Says a DEA investigator: "There are a lot of guys looking over their shoulder right...
...rush to hype the healthy-planet virtues of their products, some seem to be badly overdoing it. Mobil officials said last week that the company will no longer tout its Hefty trash bags as "degradable" because of "mounting confusion" over just what the label means. Mobil was taking a hint. The attorneys general of California, New York, Texas and five other states have launched a joint investigation to determine whether claims like Mobil's constitute deceptive advertising...
...hint of the army's coming demotion should have been visible in February 1986, when the 27th Communist Party Congress adopted the doctrine of "sufficient defense," a clear departure from the long-held Soviet view that the best defense was an overwhelming offense. The military budget, which had regularly been increased as national income grew, was frozen in 1987. Gorbachev's intentions became clearer in December 1988, when he told the United Nations he would unilaterally cut his military by 500,000 men and his $ arsenal of tanks...
...this point, archaeological evidence supporting his thesis is scarce. But several clues hint at a possible connection. "One of the excavations recovered silk at 1800 B.C.," says the anthropoligist. "It's a small fragment, but it's there...
Absent too was any hint of the extent to which Bush loves to root around in the details of his job. (He denies this trait vehemently, thinking it Carteresque.) He reads the papers each morning in bed, clipping and underlining things that catch his eye, and later sends copies to aides for follow-up. On the show, Bush's eyes may have seemed to glaze over when Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter presented him with a copy of the new farm bill, but the President is more able than most politicians to argue the finer points of crop subsidies. There...