Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rubin's warning Tuesday had scuttled Republican plans to tie the emergency debt-limit increase to their dramatic budget cuts. Who's right? Says TIME's Karen Tumulty: "The people who have the most to lose from this -- the markets -- don't seem to be worried by all this saber-rattling...
...party. Patten has been vilified in the Chinese press, while big business tugs at his sleeve, urging him to take it easy (The Economist called the 1994 democracy debates "a distraction" from more important matters, such as building a new airport.) More conservative Hong Kong residents worry that democratic saber-rattling invites a harsher crackdown in '97 and feel the best strategy may be to cuddle up to the new motherland...
...course, intensive interdependence also has its downside. The good news for our ancestors was that collectively fending off starvation or saber-toothed tigers forged bonds of a depth moderners can barely imagine. The bad news was that the tigers and the starvation sometimes won. Technology is not without its rewards...
...Religious Freedom, a 20-year-old Christian-advocacy organization. But he has harsh words for some of the scare tactics used by some of the more militant Christian-law groups. "We don't need a Christian ACLU," he says. "The ACLU gets most of its results from bluster, saber rattling and intimidation. Any organization that claims to serve a God of truth should not be about any of that business." McFarland points out that he has been able to resolve many of his cases with a phone call or letter to a local attorney general or school board...
Young crusaders rail against those Asian-Americans who don't share their belief in saber-rattling as the way to realize progress. They use the label "apathetic" as their epithet of choice: "If you don't agree with us, you're just apathetic and unconcerned...