Word: leash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system and tried to put the agency on a swidely shared by agency types as their low regard for Capitol Hill. In the 1970s, following embarrassing revelations about failed assassinations and bungled covert operations, Congress set up an oversight system and tried to put the agency on a shorter leash. Some CIA officials, including former Director William Colby, applauded the move. "I thought things had changed for good," says Colby...
...Ashe had had leukemia, would reporter and editor have published the story? Maybe, in one paragraph. But not if Ashe had asked them not to. AIDS made it different. Irresistible. Juicy gossip. Red meat. When reporters pick up that scent, they are off the leash and baying through the woods. The Ashe affair makes a strong case for media loathing...
George Bush versus the White House. John Sununu's still on the payroll in the West Wing, and everyone still hates him. Even so, the new chief of staff, Sam Skinner, is holding a tight leash on his predecessor. Since December, CNN has been trying to get Sununu to take Buchanan's place on "Crossfire" (or simply to appear on a show), but he always has to "check with Sam," and Sam never lets him play...
...even Germany is afraid of Germany. Kohl has said, "Fears are understandable. So I tell our neighbors we all need Europe and Germany needs Europe more than anyone else." Kohl is saying that Germany needs the EC leash to control its dark side from reappearing. This translates to: dear friends, we're terribly sorry, but if you won't join us, we'll beat the heck...
...Allied department store! -- managed to acquire first Allied and then Federated, ultimately controlling a U.S. retailing empire with $9 billion in sales -- and $11 billion in debt. A short time later, of course, Campeau's empire collapsed -- but this is my point! Campeau went bust; Trump's on a leash; the guy who rented the QE 2 for his son's bar mitzvah sank; Boesky, who arrived at that bar mitzvah in mid-cruise via friend John Mulheren's helicopter, went to jail; so did Mulheren, briefly (but not before setting out with an assault rifle to kill Boesky...