Word: ops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply impossible. Not that he hasn't tried. We can imagine the poor sod, armed to the teeth with daily planners and cellular phones, trying to be there for everyone. Reich, our nation's Secretary of Labor, wrote of his decision to step down from the Cabinet for the Op-Ed page of the New York Times last Friday...
...conviction. America loves an Odd Couple, if their most profound disagreement is over how often to vacuum: twice a day or never. But Bob Dole and Jack Kemp are no Felix and Oscar. They differ on fundamental matters like immigration and affirmative action. Big-tentism run amuck, the photo-op vice presidency played well at the convention. By October it was clear the marriage could not be saved, even for the sake of California's 54 electoral votes. Never wed someone with whom you already have irreconcilable differences...
...explained that "it should come as no surprise that violent passions were aroused by Israel's tampering with the ground beneath the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque." No ground beneath either shrine was touched (as noted, ironically enough, on the same day on the Post's op-ed page by archaeological scholar Hershel Shanks...
...last week, after Clinton valiantly tried to jump-start talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Dole rushed to denounce the President for the failure to reach any substantial agreement. From the sidelines Dole criticized Clinton's "photo-op foreign policy." And then (you guessed it) Dole jetted in from the campaign trail for a 15-minute photo-op of his own with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Afterward, Dole served up this not so penetrating insight: "The most important objective ... is to end the violence. We can stand clearly in support of [the] peaceful resolution of differences," but "the U.S. cannot...
...attack as a nest of oppression and pathology. As one example, David Cooper, a psychiatrist of the time, denounced the institution of family as "a secret suicide pact...an ideological conditioning device in any exploitative society." It is therefore no wonder that three decades later, a New York Times op-ed piece would announce that the nuclear family is "fast becoming a relic of the Eisenhower...