Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...France's President, Jacques Chirac, is still largely responsible for foreign policy and Jospin is preoccupied with getting his own country back on track. But among Blair, Clinton and Schroder, the situation is bleak. And yet whom do we have to blame? I don't have faith in the slick sell of these career politicians, and I voted for one. And I probably would have voted for Blair and Schroder, too, if I had been in a position...
...know what's worse: the fact that genuine world leadership seems to have disappeared or that very few people seems to care. What is clear, though, is that the world order we have ushered in over the last six years is relatively efficient, very slick and tremendously uninspiring...
...week with a primal scream. Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle got together last Monday morning to warn the White House in the most public way possible that unless they reeled in the lawyers and stopped all this "legally accurate" nonsense, the road to impeachment would be short and slick. "Dick and Tom went public," said a colleague, "because the private counseling wasn't working...
...Lewinsky scandal drags on, I continue to be mystified as to why the media is completely ignoring a little thing called "history." Are we so ignorant as to believe that our own Slick Willie is the first president with severe moral and ethical problems, and whose presidency was plagued by political scandal...
Enough with the Ken Starr bashing! Starr was given a difficult and thankless job: he had to uncover the misdeeds of an elusive foe. Considering the power of the President, it is doubtful that a less determined person would have been able to force Slick Willie to confess. Obviously the process has been disruptive and costly, but what would Americans have had Starr do? If we don't want to know when politicians break the law or commit immoral acts, then we'd better get rid of the special-prosecutor law. Otherwise, let's not shoot the messenger just because...