Word: nix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HONG KONG Tiananmen Square with boutiques? New, no more Mr. Nice Guy rulers nix civil liberties...
Beginning next year, Clinton (or Bob Dole) will no longer be able to say, "Gee, I didn't want to fund this or that ridiculous giveaway, but it was part of an important larger bill I just couldn't reject." A tough President will be able to nix $1.4 million for a National Swine Research Center, or $1 million to study the brown tree snake, which is found only on Pacific islands, or other millions of dollars for, well, the list is endless. This is how it will work...
...BUDDY NIX, 53, ATLANTA: Gun Watcher Georgia's brand-new Instant Gun Check is a success--with one loophole. If Georgia Bureau of Investigation phones are down for one business day, any applicant can get a gun--no questions asked. When a two-day blizzard shut down Atlanta last month, GBI director Nix arranged for stranded phone operators to be driven in by four-wheel drives. During that period, 24 would-be purchasers turned out to be convicted felons...
...SPLITTING WOOD IN FRONT OF MY New Hampshire house, trying to get the chores done before the next wave of Republican cavalry swept through, when Frank, my neighbor, called to say that the turkeys were back. "Great," I answered."Tell them to stop wrecking Medicare, and nix on that tax cut for the rich...
...punitive action by the Clinton administration regarding theChechnya crisis. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei V. Kozyrev agreed to hold elections in Chechnya after the crisis was dealt with, and even said he would consider allowing international observers to be present. For his part, Christopher warned the Russians that Congress might nix any new aid package to punish the Russians for their brutality in Chechnya. However, notesTIME correspondent Ann Simmons, by agreeing that the Chechnya crisis was an internal affair, the Clinton administration has in effect separated Russia's behavior there from the issue of U.S. aid. "It seems like Russia...