Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Phillips Brooks House, which devoted itself to selling war bonds, sponsoring blood drives and serving as a combination day care and center for Navy wives, slowly began to return to peacetime functions. The speakers committee, undergraduate faculty tutors, social service committee and textbook loan library all returned...
Senator John McCain of Arizona, who was investigated over savings-and-loan abuses as a member of the Keating Five, says the pressure is even greater for a career military man like Boorda. "For some of us who served in the military, the thing we prize more than anything else is our honor and our reputation. People shouldn't be interested in destroying a reputation built up over all those years of dedicated and loyal service because of one mistake...
...traditional dodge. Since the czar is always right, the argument goes, any difficulties that arise are the result of unscrupulous or stupid subordinates who undermine him. Take, for example, the failure of the government to pay its civil servants for months at a time. A $10 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund has helped Yeltsin clean up some of the arrears, but the issue remains contentious. The blame for this shameful performance, the President zestily explains in a stump-speech staple, rests with his underlings...
...Other Hero. Would Dole really tap someone who backed Phil Gramm in the early primaries, was tangentially involved in the Keating Five savings-and-loan scandal and led the fight to open diplomatic relations with Vietnam? Not most people with that kind of resume. But Arizona Senator John McCain, 59, spent 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese pow camp and would give the G.O.P. a kind of Double-Hero ticket, compounding strength with strength much as Bill Clinton did with Al Gore. Dole insiders view McCain as potentially the last man standing, the one to whom Dole would turn...
...side there are the Taiwanese officials and others who view the loan to America as a politically essential gesture of cultural goodwill, especially now that mainland China is rattling its missiles and threatening once more to retake what Beijing regards as a runaway province. (Probably the Taipei museum would never have lent the material if the Taiwan government hadn't wanted to stick a finger up Beijing's nostril.) However, Taiwanese cultural nationalists have denounced the loan as a cynical game with irreplaceable national symbols whose meaning cannot in any case be appreciated by the round-eyed barbarians who will...