Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem was that Russia's banking system was a mess, which meant the well-intentioned devaluation quickly turned into a free-for-all. The particular dilemma was that Russia's banks were loaded down with foreign-currency debt, which meant that a decrease in the value of the ruble made repayment more expensive. This made the temptation to default almost irresistible--especially since Russian banks are generally seen as checkbooks for a new class of oligarchs. As the soon to be departed Russian government heads huddled in Moscow to figure a way out of this crisis and to consider...
...then consistency is a hobgoblin of the pre-spin mentality. Although the truth about Monica, or something close to it, was forced out of President Clinton, we are still in the golden age of spin. Spin as a metaphor derived from "putting a spin on the ball," and meant putting your own twist on the truth. But a better image today is the spinning wheel, thence the expression "spinning a tale." Truth is incidental...
...delectable details--in which White House anteroom did the couple convene and what did the Leader of the Free World do with his pants and did they do it on the floor or use a desk or a sofa and was it one of those hard formal sofas not meant to be reclined on and did someone knock on the door during the proceedings and did she smoke a cigarette afterward and were snacks served--these all can be provided by a good novelist. But this is not about government. There is not an impeachable offense here...
...OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Time was, being the President meant dealing with unemployment and foreign enemies, not cheap sex. So how do we become President...
...Louvre's Hermaphrodite in Siesta, 1900. Quite often you have to look for her; she is on the margin of the painting or sunk in the background, as though half glimpsed, less immediately present to the eye than the blaze of light on a tablecloth. Intimacy, to Bonnard, also meant distance...