Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush and everyone else keep saying, Iraq and Yugoslavia are challenges to the post-cold war order. That realization in itself should exclude, or at least mute, references to Vietnam in the debate over how to meet those challenges...
...Russian President shrewdly moved to mute criticism of his reform government by expanding its ranks to include Vladimir Shumeiko, a deputy speaker of the rebellious Russian parliament with ties to the military- industrial complex, as a new First Deputy Prime Minister alongside Gaidar. He also increased the number of Deputy Prime Ministers from six to 10, mixing strong advocates of reform with pragmatic technocrats. Says Yeltsin: "The possibility for a compromise has been exhausted with these appointments. There will be no more personnel changes...
...throughout the early primaries as Bush told Republican voters that his new first priority was repairing the domestic economy. Aiding Russia and the other republics became possible only when Buchanan's challenge waned after Bush's victories in Michigan and Illinois on March 17. But even then Bush was mute until Richard Nixon chastised the President for a "pathetically inadequate" nonresponse to Moscow's pleas for help. And even then nothing happened until the White House realized that last Wednesday morning Bill $ Clinton was about to unveil his scheme to assist the faltering former communists...
...just stood there with my mouth slack-jawed, watching in mute stupidity...
...America is only afternoon television, then people will care, in a slack- jawed way, whether Bill was unfaithful to Hillary with Gennifer. It is the kind of question asked on soap operas and on Oprah and Geraldo and Donahue. When the program ends, the audience will mute a commercial and scratch itself, glance out the window and see that reality still looks lousy. It will turn back to the television and click through the channels to find another hour of pointless junk...