Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GENE THAT CAUSES OTHerwise normal people to seek elective office is encoded with a warning: Don't mess with Social Security. Now, suddenly, the opposite is becoming true. So many average citizens are aware that the system could be bankrupt within 25 years that politicians who deny the problem risk losing their credibility. In fact, the greatest philosophical shift in Social Security's 60-year history is actually in the offing--a move toward privatizing at least a portion of the system so that workers could establish individual retirement accounts and invest in stocks and bonds. Still, swift action...
Scott's Hamlet is simply too genteel. Wearing Allison Reed's stylish costumes--black silk pajamas replace the ripped stockings that Ophelia describes--Scott unintentionally makes it seem that Hamlet's tragic flaw is vanity. The Prince cannot kill anyone; the exertion would mess up his hair...
...Dole knows what to do about the future. He's already seen us through hard times," said Frederick Carter. "When Dole gets in office, nobody is going to mess around with...
...people we will be sent out of our comfortable shelter in the Yard and into the world of upper-class houses. Of course, this is a problem every year. Wise seniors nod and respond, "Oh, the night before the blocking forms were due...well...it was quite a mess." However, something new arises for the class of '99, for whom the transitions seem to be particularly endless. Once we choose our 16, nine-, two-person group--whatever we can agree upon--we have no guarantee that we will be anywhere near any of our other groups of friends...
...Congress and the president, they're all, everyone's making a mess. We're the ones that suffer for it, the taxpayers.... Get rid of the Congress' salary, that's the first thing.... Get rid of the president altogether, he don't seem to do much...