Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats jabbed at their Republican counterparts as wealthy, blueblood Yankees, the Republicans countered with jokes about the Irish and the state's fiscal mess, and candidates hoping to make a splash at the event took aim at their opponents in both parties...
...agency will need thousands more, and finding talented employees has been difficult. "They do a lot of clock watching and bean counting," says a Houston real estate agent. "Everybody's so afraid of making a mistake that you can't get an answer. It's a mess...
...think so. The leadership of the army and of the party are close to each other. And the majority of the officers do not wish to get involved. There are very few of them who would want to be in charge of all the mess, to take all the responsibility for cleaning it up without any guarantee that they can do it. In the past the Soviet political situation was predictable; now it is getting less and less predictable. There are some important people in the party who, because of the country's chaos, talk about a possible split...
Thanks, boys. Perhaps some of that abrasiveness comes from youth. But more of it may be a way of combatting the pasting that Milli Vanilli has received from such precincts of rock traditionalism as Rolling Stone (Worst Album and % Worst Band -- 1989 Critics' Picks Poll). Rockers, of course, hardly mess at all with dance music, which is all right with the Millis. "We have only gotten bigger and bigger," says Pilatus about all the flak. "It just makes me more aggressive, and if I get aggressive, I get better. If I get better, it's worse...
...each other down like the F Troop of politics." To the consternation of Democratic leaders, G.O.P. lawmakers began distributing campaign buttons with the slogan SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY. VOTE REPUBLICAN. George Bush also weighed in, repeating the pledge made in his State of the Union Address that he would not "mess around" with Social Security. "This is an effort to get me to try to raise taxes on the American people by the charade of cutting them, or to cut benefits," said Bush...