Word: replaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush doesn't want a replay of 1987, when Ronald Reagan named Judge Robert Bork in July and then had to wait until after Labor Day for the Judiciary Committee to start confirmation proceedings. The delay gave Bork's critics ample time to study his record and marshal arguments against him. "As long as you're as close as we are, it's better to get the choice made so you don't get a lot of needless lobbying and pressure," Bush declared before heading for Kennebunkport. He clearly implied that he might announce his choice as early as this...
...1980s. During the most recent delay, engineers were horrified to discover, more or less by accident, that sensors in Columbia's fuel line were cracked. If one had broken loose, it could have been sucked into the spacecraft's powerful pumps, causing the ship to explode in a replay of the Challenger disaster. Apparently nobody had ever thought of checking the fuel line's sensors before...
What's worse, the tone and substance of the majority opinion seems depressingly similar to that of their previous positions. They offer no original insights or fresh perspectives. Instead, they merely replay the same hackneyed tunes from that old broken record--you know, the one about "antiquated attitudes" and the "oldboy network...
...unlikely replay of the civil rights struggle, the members' welcome move to equality was stymied by the club's tradition-bound graduate board of directors, which opposed the decision and changed the locks on the Skull and Bones "tomb." The Bones' graduate board even proposed an absurd compromise plan calling for "separate but equal" facilities for women...
...eery replay of the previous game, Springfield hammered pitch after pitch to score three runs in the second inning, two in the fourth, and the last three of in the sixth, making the score 8-1 going into the top of the seventh...