Word: hire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet Union were mighty uncomfortable last week about the prospect of sharing their most important secrets with the team of U.S. technicians arriving to help dismantle their nukes. Meanwhile, American officials are concerned that unemployed experts in nuclear weaponry, aircraft design and other military technology may be tempted to hire out their skills. Washington has no intention of drafting all that talent but has drawn up a list of those the U.S. would like to see stay put. Part of the $400 million appropriated by Congress for nuclear-disarmament assistance may go for salaries for the key wizards. Sort...
...foreign policy expertise -- the fact that Clinton leads the Democratic pack in New Hampshire is hardly accidental. Clinton may not win, and he may not deserve to; he has yet to prove that he would be a competent President. But if he stumbles, whoever emerges could do worse than hire Clinton as his manager. Here, then, is the candidate as calculator...
...that good fortune dulls their sense of social responsibility. When they hire a handyman, he is (as they might prefer to put it) "differently abled" -- a sweet-souled retardate named Solomon (Ernie Hudson, in a nicely judged performance). When in the course of a prenatal examination Claire is sexually abused by a gynecologist, she comes to feel, after suitable soul searching, that she has no choice but to bring charges against the doctor in order to save others from her experience...
...shopping, laundry, cooking, ; mending -- and, oh, yes, communication. Quality time had become a bitter cliche: a concentrated, forced effort to make up for irretrievable moments. Children could not be expected to schedule all their needs in a prime-time slot. Adults found they had to work harder to hire people to do the work they had no time for: raking the leaves, fixing the porch, taking care of the kids and even cooking meals...
...find a house with look-the-other-way parents, there's always an illegal club. In Los Angeles a smart young promoter type will locate a vacant building that can be broken into for a one-night stand, hire a pal with a good sound system to put together dance tracks and serve as deejay, and then hand out flyers urging kids to call a certain number if they want to party at a "major rager." An hour before show time, the organizer tapes an answering-machine message telling customers the location. Of course the club promoters play it safe...