Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intervene on behalf of the Kosovars lest their own Albanians secede. Either outcome could tempt the Greeks to intervene militarily. They are already destabilizing the Macedonian government by choking off its oil imports, idling tractors and trucks during the crucial harvest period and leaving grapes and apples to rot...
...regime itself is in an advanced stage of dry rot. Imagine the Soviet Union if Stalin were still alive and in charge at age 112: that is North Korea, which outsiders have mockingly dubbed "the world's last socialist theme park." It has had no Khrushchev, not even a Brezhnev, never mind a Gorbachev. It has only its founding dictator, Kim Il Sung, who is 80 and failing. "The Great Leader" has designated his son, "the Dear Leader," heir to the throne. But a succession struggle may already have begun...
...fields will knock out power plants and transmission towers as they fly over them, while destroying all data stored in tapes and disks at the targets. Other missiles will release showers of carbon-fiber dust to short out electrical installations. A CIA chemical, sprayed on roads or airfields, will rot tires. And if operatives can get close enough, a new microbe, dropped into fuel tanks of jets, tanks and trucks, will be brought into play to turn the fuel into useless jelly...
...something broader and more relevant. The movement was defined by what no longer exists, the cold war, and still uses a vocabulary now out of date." The fact that Bush gets diminishing credit for the U.S. victory in the cold war during his watch is a larger sign of rot on the right. "There's an amazing disconnect," says one of Bush's top campaign advisers, "between the President and conservative leaders. They can't forget that he didn't come out of their movement the way Reagan did." Nor does Bush get much respect for his vigorous pandering...
...Rot on the Right...