Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American swimmers want to smoke up, let them take their chances with local police forces and the NCAA, but don't have the IOC tell them how they spend their Saturday nights, please...
...these schools let out for the summer, Harvard's anti-sweatshop leaders say they are satisfied with the progress of their campaign. They say they do not plan to adopt more radical tactics anytime soon...
...family is unhappy in its own way. While I can't imagine spending eternity at the side of a slave master, some of Hemings' descendants want to be buried in the family cemetery at Monticello. But some of the 700-member all-white Monticello Association don't want to let their black relatives in, even as corpses. They weren't even planning to invite Hemings' 33 known descendants to the reunion until Lucian Truscott IV--a writer who seems to have inherited more of Jefferson's spirit than the rest of the Monticello Association put together--threatened to show...
Certainly, Summers has the intellectual rigor to succeed Rubin. He is often described as being the smartest guy in the room--and generous enough to let you know it. Rubin, on the other hand, may actually have been the smartest guy in the room without letting anyone else know it. And right there is the difference between an academic and a bond trader...
...satchels full of checks are still coming in to his ZIP code. Last week Elizabeth Dole threw a tomato. Though she did not mention Bush by name, the former Cabinet secretary launched a verbal missile in the post-Littleton gun-control debate, declaring that it was "wrong to let people carry concealed weapons." Her target was obvious. Bush, who had signed a 1995 law allowing Texans to tuck registered handguns into their purses and coat pockets, fired back through a spokesman on the same day. Texans were now safer, came the riposte, "particularly women who work late hours...