Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trip this year. Says Wu: "Fifty percent of Chinese rubber products come from chemical factories that employ forced labor." Human Rights Watch/Asia says latex gloves used by doctors were exported as recently as last January only after being inspected in Beijing's Prison No. 2. One prisoner tried to slip a note into a glove but was reported by other inmates and then beaten by guards with electric batons -- not an unusual occurrence in that lockup...
...like me, you're not quite willing to let your entire generation slip through the historical cracks. "Generation X" just doesn't cut it. It's time to show 'em what we're made of. It's time to bring a McDonald's to the Square...
...have been found on a New York City sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon, puffing a pipe and surveying the passing scene while listening to the music of Henry Purcell? It was Monday, the one working day he wasn't on deadline, and Murray Kempton was happy to slip off the earphones of his portable CD player and muse about Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events (Times Books; 570 pages; $27.50), a new collection of his writings...
...dead aim at the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against "unreasonable" and warrantless searches, the President, who once taught constitutional law, wants the concept of reasonableness balanced to conform with today's conditions. "There are many rights ((guaranteed by)) our laws . . . but ((victims)) have certain rights that we are letting slip away," says Clinton. "They include the right to go out to the playground and the right to walk to the corner without fear of gunfire, the right to go to school safely, and to sit by an open window...
...separate role as leader of the most militant and potentially violent of the township proletariat -- especially the gun-toting youth gangs. While the A.N.C.'s top echelon is mostly moderate, almost 50% of its 1 million rank-and- file members are in the militant camp. If reforms begin to slip and there is no tangible progress in a year or so, Mandela may find his fiercest challenger is his fiery, camouflage-clad wife. "Winnie," says Tom Lodge, an authority on South African political movements, "is an instinctive populist. She will tell the masses what they want to hear...