Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's also why the monarchy's peripatetic Petroleum Minister, Ali Naimi, was trying last week to broker production cuts among major oil producers to sop up a global glut that has recently pushed prices to a 12-year low, barely higher in real terms than in 1973. After several days of haggling at meetings in Europe and the Persian Gulf, Naimi finally announced a breakthrough: Iran, Algeria, Venezuela, Mexico and the Saudis agreed to press OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and non-OPEC countries for a 2 million- bbl.-a-day reduction in the flow of crude...
...competition is admittedly scarce. From his former status as one of PlannersBanc's most-courted customers, Charlie has fallen to the level of "s___head," an arrogant deadbeat who must be bullied out of his profligate habits and set on the course of fiscal prudence. As a grudging sop to the ravenous bankers, Charlie decrees a 15% cut in the work force of another of his enterprises, Croker Global Food...
...Plantation in Maryland. That meeting is aimed at achieving further Israeli withdrawal from parts of the West Bank, a move hotly opposed by Netanyahu's far-right coalition allies, who have threatened to bring down the government over the issue. Sharon's promotion is Netanyahu's sop to them, an unpleasant one for the Prime Minister, given the long rivalry between the two men. The idea is that Sharon, a hard-liner, will vigilantly guard the interests of the ultranationalists, perhaps by sabotaging a deal, perhaps by minimizing Israeli concessions...
...album's central topic is love. Not the sappy sop of pop ditties, but a tough, confessional examination of relationships such as cultural critic Bell Hooks describes in her book Talking Back: Thinking Feminist/Thinking Black: "Love can be and is an important source of empowerment...to face the ways in which we dominate and are dominated... To change our actions, we need a mediating force to sustain us." Hill's songs try to be that mediating force. On Ex-Factor, she examines her own attraction to psychologically hurtful men. "Who I have to be/ To get some reciprocity?" she pleads...
...fight about. Democrats are firm that patients be allowed to sue their health plans, an idea that Republicans and their business constituents find heretical. The House Republican bill contains a few land mines of its own, such as medical savings accounts (a risky experiment, Democrats say, and a sop to G.O.P. campaign contributors) and limits on malpractice awards (which the Democrats and their trial-lawyer allies warn would prevent the injured from recovering what they are due). Says Republican Ganske of his leaders: "They have included a melange of controversial ideas to make sure the bill won't pass...