Word: reared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stockpiled at five of the nation's chemical-weapons storage sites. Too late, the Army discovered that the design of the weapon has a potentially fatal flaw: sarin, the deadly poison that was packed into the nose cone, tends to corrode the aluminum casing. And sarin leaking into the rear chamber accelerates the decay of the stabilizing agent that prevents the rocket fuel from "auto-igniting.'' Because there is no way to safely dismantle the rocket, the deadly nerve agent and the volatile fuel have been locked in a slowly rotting shell for more than 30 years...
...Dole does not win the Republican nomination, he will die a horrible political death. We will see him vainly thrashing around in his last strongholds--the Bible Belt and the isolated pockets of the country where fundamentalism and fanaticism still rear their low brow heads. At campaign rallies, prayer breakfasts and fund raising dinners, he will constantly draw attention to his gnarled fist, until even his most ardent supporters desert him, disgusted by his shameless antics...
Instead he perched there, bitter, monotonic, denouncing Clinton as "the last public defender of a discredited status quo," the "rear guard of the welfare state." The President spoke of the Age of Possibility; Dole of the Era of Darkness. Clinton spoke to 250 million Americans; Dole to 20,000 Christian conservatives in Iowa. Clinton was inclusive and optimistic; Dole was unforgiving and retro. Clinton was the leader above the fray; Dole was the fray. The only good news was that so many viewers turned off their sets before he came on. "It was," said a Dole adviser who watched...
...these days, in part because of the demands of fuel economy, that there is not much profit left except in the luxury models. Trucks and truckoids, even with the power windows, CD players and pleated leather seats that suburban buyers are asking for, are still simple enough, many with rear-wheel drive and huge, iron power plants outmoded 20 years ago, to return $4,000 to $6,000 in profit per vehicle. And so far, buyers have absorbed sizable price rises--for pickups, from $17,000 or $18,000 to $22,000 or $24,000 in a couple of years...
...knows, kids won't touch Shakespeare unless he is made all hot and gaudy and R-rated. So let's get with it, moviemakers! If the Bard writes about a Moor who loves a Venetian lady, show them naked in bed together, and have Iago woo Emilia from the rear. If the subject is villainy on a royal scale, as in Richard III, cram the screen with ingenious murders. Everyone says that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd have been a screenwriter. But would he be Joe Eszterhas? Would he have shown one of his characters enjoying fellatio--then...