Word: spills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reactive White House where quick reflexes are prized, Skinner became the preferred troubleshooter. He managed the Administration's response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Eastern Air Lines strike, Hurricane Hugo and the 1989 California earthquake. Now Skinner's task is to cut dead weight from the White House staff and reawaken the Administration's dormant domestic policy and public relations operation. His appointment has worried some conservatives, who relied on Sununu to take their side in most fights. But Skinner, who has recently applied his charms to the right, insists that he is "as conservative as any conservative...
...disgruntled savers are among the winners and losers of Washington's singular reliance on interest-rate cuts as the main tool of economic policy. With the federal deficit expected to reach $350 billion in 1992, politicians are reluctant to cut taxes or increase spending in a way that would spill even more red ink. That leaves low rates as Washington's preferred prescription for increasing consumer spending and stimulating business growth...
Like an oil spill, the B.C.C.I. affair has been slowly spreading, tarring a growing list of prominent U.S. politicians with links to the bank. They include Clifford, a former Secretary of Defense who is under criminal investigation; former President Jimmy Carter, who accepted millions in contributions from B.C.C.I. for his presidential library and his charitable foundation; former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who borrowed money from B.C.C.I. and did not pay it back; and former Treasury Secretary John Connally, who bought a Texas bank with B.C.C.I. front man Ghaith Pharaon. Even Secretary of State James Baker's name indirectly came...
...owner, who has teamed up with engineer Phil Lawrence to launch Chariots International to promote the sport. The two Michigan natives spent the past year developing eight 350-lb., $6,000 chariots. In late September, professional harness drivers raced four of the chariots for the first time -- without a spill. Hall and Lawrence hope to find sponsors for individual races or a series so they can develop chariot racing into an "entertainment event" much like TV's American Gladiators. "The ultimate goal," says Lawrence, "is to have each country at the '96 Olympics represented with a chariot at the opening...
Andy is the master story-teller. Inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous, he urges everyone he meets to spill their guts. No one escapes without regurgitating a short story about themselves. The subjects range from supermarket apocalypses to tales of Texlahoma, an asteroid orbiting earth where it is perpetually...