Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over seventy years, the 1918 Treaty of Versailles would stand as the last important international security pact that the Senate failed to ratify. The streak was broken this past week when, on Oct. 13, majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) led Senate Republicans in a 51-48 vote to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT...
Suddenly, it seems as if every nuclear arms control agreement of the past 30 years is on the table. Days after losing a Senate vote on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Clinton administration is now trying a new tactic to get Russian approval to revise one of the baseline arms control documents, the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. The carrot, according to the New York Times: If the Russians agree not to squawk over plans to create radar-and-interceptor missile defenses in Alaska and North Dakota (a violation of the treaty), the U.S. will help Russia upgrade...
...with him were always the same as anybody, anybody who came into his orbit. Reagan had no interest in individual human character. Therefore it was all one, whether the Biographer walked into the oval office, or a Labor Union leader, or the President of Bangladesh. So I never got past that genial...
...anarchy. Similarly, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke's previous efforts in the Balkans may have paled in light of the Kosovo war. President Clinton's peacemaking centerpiece, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, has been an underwhelming success, and he's been more of a warrior than a peacemaker over the past year, while Pope John Paul II and President Carter haven't been particularly visible recently in mediating conflicts. In light of the competition, the Nobel Committee made an inspired choice...
...what happened between the governor's election and the defeat of the lottery referendum? "The lottery idea was very popular initially," says TIME Montgomery bureau correspondent Ralph Holmes. "But in the past couple of months you?ve had every minister in every pulpit preaching against the lottery, warning that it would link education to gambling - and church people turned out in droves on Tuesday." Not that many of the arguments made by the Alabama anti-lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they...