Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...states that followed. Two weeks before the Texas primary, Bill Clinton telephoned Waco insurance mogul and philanthropist Bernard Rapoport, a friend and backer since the 1970s. Rapoport told Clinton that this was the first contact he had had from anyone on the campaign. "He was madder than mad," Rapoport says. "He was right. There was so much we could have done, but we never heard from anyone at headquarters...
...inutile, incapable of principled gestures, which may or may not make the world a better place, however pleasing they may be to your own ego. Which says nothing about mega-history, the movement of which as the war develops, will determine the fate of these men and the grand, mad scheme they're obliged to serve...
...It’s a mad, mad world. Literally. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a part of the Department of Health and Human Services, estimates that in a given year, 26.2 percent of Americans 18 and older suffer from a mental illness. That’s one in four of all of us. In the words of Rita Mae Brown, “Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it?...
...food world must have had mad scientists before--whoever decided to bring fire inside the house, the guy who thought it would be a good idea to yank on a cow's udder and drink whatever came out--but none of them could have played the part better than Arnold, 36, does. With slicked-back hair, a gap-toothed smile and an energy that would exhaust most meth addicts, he's become the gadget guy for top New York City chefs, as well as a teacher at the French Culinary Institute. In his Manhattan classroom, he trolls...
...Sunday evening, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the recall of 143 million pounds of beef due to fears of infection by E. coli, salmonella, and mad cow disease. It was the biggest meat recall in US history, four times larger than the previous record. More alarmingly, the recall affected over 37 million pounds of hamburgers, tacos, and sandwiches served through America’s school lunch program, with the USDA sheepishly admitting that most of that total had already been consumed by the nation’s youngsters...