Word: referred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets quoted Reagan as telling Gorbachev, "If we agree that by the end of the ten-year period all nuclear arms are to be eliminated, we can refer this to our delegations in Geneva to prepare an agreement that you could sign during your visit to the U.S." Top Reagan aides did not specifically dispute these words. They said the President, in focusing on the General Secretary's unyielding opposition to the Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative, let Gorbachev broaden the bargain to all strategic weapons. But when Gorbachev failed to budge on Star Wars, talk of banning nuclear weapons...
When the 100th Congress convenes in January, the new Senate majority will bring with it not a legacy of accommodation with the President, but rather the memory of a President whom most Democrats on the Hill refer to as the most partisan in their experience. Their challenge will be most keenly felt in areas where the potentially most enduring features of the Reagan Revolution have yet to be securely crafted, namely those of judicial appointments, Central American policy, and the defense buildup. We can only speculate, for example, about the likely nominees for judicial positions who will be dropped from...
...costs (money that cannot be recouped when a project is aborted), tin cupping (when one corporate division begs for management support) and deadheading (bypassing a senior employee in order to promote someone more junior). Computer aficionados complain about vaporware (software that has been announced but not yet produced). Advertisers refer disparagingly to white bread (consumers with bland tastes). And all business executives try to avoid a Mickey Mouse. That's a major effort that produces paltry results...
...terror -- i.e., those who genuinely seek a compromise solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem -- get shot. The latest victim is the mayor of Nablus, whose crime was to take over responsibility for fixing potholes. That was too much accommodation with the Zionist entity, as the rejectionists like to refer to Israel...
Unbeknown to an unsuspecting public, Boy George's drug troubles touched off a severe crisis in the journalese-speaking community. How should reporters and pundits, all fluent in journalese as well as English, refer to the suddenly woozy singer? Naturally enough, conventions of the language demanded a hyphenated modifier. "Much-troubled" might have been acceptable, but that adjective is reserved, as are "oil-rich" and "war-torn," for stories about the Middle East. One tabloid, apparently eager to dismiss the celebrity as a wanton hussy, called him "gender-confused pop star Boy George." This was a clear violation of journalese...