Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deals message, however, became muddled the next day when a senior Albright aide told reporters that the U.S. was prepared to offer "a little carrot" to Iraq and allow it to sell more oil internationally to buy food and medicine. A furious Clinton ordered senior aides to disavow the comment. "There should be no trading for any carrots in order to get [Saddam's] compliance," said Defense Secretary William Cohen...
...have been arguing for a year that because Iraq has made progress toward eliminating its arsenals of missiles and chemical weapons (though not its biological stores), it should receive some kind of carrot--a partial lifting of economic sanctions--to go with all the sticks. (The U.S. considers the "oil-for-food" swap it approved last December to be in this category; the plan allowed Iraq to sell $4 billion worth of oil, using the money for food and medicine.) The motives of the French and the Russians are suspect, however, because both countries stand to reap financial windfalls from...
...insecure. The borders are porous, the government cannot keep track of routine visa violators, and the population is forever on the move. The U.S. is a sea into which evildoers can dive and remain submerged. Terrorists, like anyone else, have little difficulty obtaining guns or the simple makings for oil-barrel truck bombs. Now the new terror could be an even more lethal destroyer--microbes. Germ weapons are small, cheap, easy to hide, simple to dispense and horribly effective. They may be the threat of the near future...
...died last year, and now Yolanda lives with Tom. Their living room is filled with pictures of the whole family, but the most prominent keepsakes are Teddy's old Marshall helmet and an oil painting of a handsome young man in a green No. 14 jersey...
Lifetime supply of castor oil...