Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican leadership has promised across-the-board cuts to every program except Social Security and defense. We must ask why on earth these politicians feel compelled to throw money at fighter planes and protect this country's oldest generation while leaving its youngest hamstrung and hog-tied...
ROBERT BYRD West Virginia Senator hog-ties G.O.P. in parliamentary fine print...
...problem here is that no foreign nation will bail out the U.S. if religious fundamentalists hog-tie the government; the solution must be entirely internal...
...best spoofs of Wagner take on the music and kid it. But composer Scott Warrender settles for standard C. and W. in the first act (Hog-Tie Your Man), while veering to show tunes in the second. The only Wagner to be heard is the bridal march from Lohengrin, which runs through the mismatched double weddin' of Gunther to Brunnhilde and of her drugged true love Siegfried to Gutrune. One way or another, much of the opera plot -- too much -- is noted. As one of the actors says, pointing at the audience, "Their eyes is glazed over! They...
...problem with altruism as the prime mover of foreign policy is that altruism is a sentiment, not a strategy. And to paraphrase Lord Palmerston, America has no permanent sentiments, only permanent interests. The Emir of Kuwait, living high on the hog in Saudi Arabia waiting to be returned to his palace by American troops, was no more worthy or sympathetic a figure than Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But it did not matter much. America had more than altruistic reasons for going into Kuwait. Real, tangible, important things were at stake: oil, nuclear weapons, the future of the Middle East...