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Word: rotted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Actually, this was never much of a threat. After decades of heinously self-interested Cold War foreign policy, the danger that a single humanitarian precedent could send the U.S. down the path of no return is inconceivable. As we let the Kurds rot in northern Iraq, it is simply comic to imagine us committing our military to a policy of global famine prevention...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Making Sense for Somalia | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

Although most overseas-job firms operate legally, few deliver on their promises of $70,000-plus jobs in exotic locales. Only an estimated 2% of their + customers ever get a job. Police say refunds are rare. "I'd like to see these guys rot in hell," says Bill Dwyer, a 43-year-old New Jersey electrician who scrounged together $295 after a Florida job agency told him he would have a choice of assignments in Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Acapulco, Mexico. Out of work for three years, he dreamed of sending his kids to college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nice Work If You Can Get It | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

American families deserve the choice to attend private schools. If public schools can't compete, then we should leave them behind to rot. Our commitment should be to educate our children as effectively as possible, not to preserve the jobs of inefficient public school bureaucrats...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Even the Russians Do It | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

From private fibs to public whoppers, rampant lying is a spreading dry rot in the American body politic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

More political messages are provided in "Youth Against Fascism," an all out attack on the Republican adminstration. "I believe Anita Hill/The judge will rot in hell," Moore yells. His evaluation of Bush's re-election prospects? "Yeah, the President sucks/His shit is out of luck...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: SONIC ATTACK | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

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