Word: slush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money invested there. What the press has reported as a negative -- two-thirds of Mexican stocks owned by foreigners -- she regards as a positive. The U.S. can't afford not to bail out Mexico, and late last week, it offered to do just that with a $7 billion emergency slush fund...
Cinema: Two Santa Claus movies are just seasonal slush...
...that; we don't go to the movies, especially Christmas movies, expecting much in the way of useful social commentary. What's really wrong with these pictures -- Attenborough's sweet, smart performance aside -- is that their sentiments are completely predictable and completely unfelt. They're just the standard seasonal slush. You can get the same emotional and imaginative kick staying home and rereading your Christmas cards...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher to open the spigot full blast. The Secretary voiced sympathy but reiterated the demands of donors for strict accounting controls. Arafat fumes at such "economic occupation," but donors, recalling the P.L.O.'s freewheeling spending habits, have reason to fear creation of a giant slush fund...
...level U.S.-Palestinian meeting there since self-rule began, told the P.L.O. chairman he'd have to provide the World Bank and other groups up-front paperwork on how the money would be spent. TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister, traveling with Christopher, says Arafat wants it in a slush fund to continue his old grease-the-wheels style, but is coming to realize that heads of state in other countries don't set up schools and government services with bribes...