Word: shredding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JOYOUS HOMECOMING FOR THIS SUMMER'S LITtle League World Champions turned sour even before the last shred of confetti hit the ground. Local sports columnists claimed that as many as half the players on the team from Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines were over the 12-year age limit (or 13 if the player's birthday is after Aug. 1). Little League officials in Manila stonewalled efforts to certify the players' ages, and most of the Philippine press and public seemed to view the accusations as an American plot...
...interviewed a number of career civil servants (and let me digress to say that if you have a lot of talent and ambition and want to victimize yourself in an occupation with inadequate pay--but have rejected elementary school teaching because it has some slight shred of respect--then the civil service is for you), and these people, many of whom actually run entire agencies, took me seriously. Truly gifted interns for whom truth is no handicap will find that worthwhile political connections are only a few business cards away...
When they get to school, they can find out. That is, if the Admissions Office doesn't misplace, shred or otherwise lose the document called the "summary sheet...
Faced with a trial that could end his career and shred their meal ticket, Tyson's advisers made the fatal mistake of underestimating the opposition. In the mid-'80s, when the young fighter got into trouble, his people would speak to the local police commissioner, give him a few ringside seats for the next bout . . . no more trouble. The Tyson camp may have tried that tactic again, offering Washington $750,000 to withdraw her complaint. That wouldn't happen here -- not in Indianapolis, not with this accuser and not with Gregory Garrison, a smart barrister with a homespun air, whom...
...dissidents -- than they are of Saddam. An Arab diplomat relates a conversation that occurred when the Iraqi dictator visited his capital well before the invasion of Kuwait. Saddam, says the diplomat, told his hosts that he had no illusions: if he ever fell from power, the mobs would so shred his body that not a piece of him larger than a fingertip would survive. But, he added, he had warned his subordinates that exactly the same thing would happen to them -- so they had better not join in any plots to depose him. In any case, a coup would succeed...