Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amato's power, but the odds are against them. He is a bare-knuckle player even by the raucous standards of Capitol Hill, a club fighter who lives for the ring. He curses and cajoles, bestowing favors and exacting revenge, cutting his endless, beloved deals: a compromise to push through a bill, an infusion of cash for an ally's campaign, a raise for someone else's staff member--anything to prove his power and display his reach...
...HAND IT TO CALVIN KLEIN: HE REALLY knows how to milk an advertising campaign, even a doomed one. First you push the envelope until it splits open by putting pubescent models in lurid poses, then plaster them on billboards and magazines-and air them on TV. If you're lucky, parents, the Catholic League and other religious groups will protest, especially over the video in which an offscreen male voice tells a girl standing alone that she's pretty and not to be nervous. Promise to withdraw the ads with an Orwellian statement about how your "positive message" was "misunderstood...
This time he wasn't just saying it. In fact, the President and his foreign policy team had spent much of July and August writing the scripts for last week's two-stage Bosnia drama: both the unprecedented bombardment of the Serbs and the simultaneous push for negotiations. Despite the low public visibility the President and his senior policymakers maintained as events unfolded, it was clear--both to the parties in the former Yugoslavia and to the U.S. allies in Europe--that a qualitative change had taken place. After four years of ambivalence and only partial engagement, America was taking...
...diplomats suggest that Iraq has only until the end of the year to push for sanctions relief. After that comes the U.S. presidential election season, during which they believe Clinton would never lift the embargo for fear of appearing soft. So the regime is promising "100%" cooperation with the U.N. , according to Ekeus. But the Iraqis have been playing cheat and retreat skillfully for years, and even if Hussein Kamel's defection makes it much harder, they will still no doubt find some ways to continue the game...
...more prestigious service academies in the mid-'70s, there was an effort made to ease their way. The first classes were substantial (119 women started at West Point in 1976), and standards were quietly made equivalent without being the same (hair could be cut to collar length, 18 push-ups in two minutes instead of some 40). Female officers now routinely graduate with distinction. In 1995, Rebecca Marier beat out 988 fellow cadets to graduate first at West Point...