Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tragedy (Viking) In this tale of what went wrong with the Russian Revolution, Cambridge historian Orlando Figes deals vividly with starvation, disease, tribal hatreds, sociopathic bloodlust, religious mania, governmental terrorism and most other sources of human misery. Plus, Figes argues, stupidity ruled the times, quite literally in the stiff presence of Czar Nicholas II. A smarter leader might have led to a better 20th century...
...planned for August, during a crew changeover. Baturin, a former staff member at Energiya, the Russian space corporation that made Mir, has been secretly taking lessons in zero-G flight at Star City, the cosmonaut-training center outside Moscow. The competition to join him aloft promises to be stiff. Slovak, French and Indonesian astronauts, as well as a CNN correspondent, have already put in bids. Why would Baturin risk his life in space? Simple: his sojourn is the best Mir advertisement the Kremlin could devise...
...merit genuine interest and concern or that there were no valid reasons for the emotional expressions that followed them. But these responses seemed so much more dramatic than usual, and so determinedly public. What was not openly displayed was deemed not to exist. When Diana died, the traditionally stiff-upper-lipped royal family was exhorted by placards to SHOW US YOU CARE...
Everybody loves the workin' stiff, especially with an election year coming up. Which is why Washington witnessed a rare political alignment last week as leaders from both parties pushed credits, reductions or deductions of the tax that hits the lunch-box crowd hardest: the payroll tax. While many Republicans talk about lowering income-tax rates, Senate majority leader TRENT LOTT last week named making payroll taxes deductible as a more likely reform. And, hey, Democrat TED KENNEDY's a big fan too, listing a cut as a top priority for next year. In a private make-nice meeting last week...
...without a trial. The government urged leniency--the cops had confessed to more crimes than anyone suspected, and implicated more than 50 fellow officers in the process--but the judge was unsympathetic. "You've squashed the Bill of Rights in the mud," he said before sending the men to stiff prison terms...