Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greed--and greed is what this whole sorry mess is all about. ``It's just a few hundred folks trying to figure out how to divide nearly $2 billion,'' said the President plaintively. ``They ought to be able to do that.'' Clinton obviously didn't understand that the baseball strike is like Somalia: simple on the outside, a quagmire once you're in. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who enjoyed a cushy teaching gig before moving inside the Beltway, seems similarly at sea. ``I've never seen this degree of animosity,'' said Reich. ``I can't explain it.'' Well, listen...
Another reason involves credit. Clinton hoped to be a hero. He hoped, especially, to wow the white male voters he desperately needs in 1996. He failed, but at least he tried. Sure, there are more important matters before him, but if he'd settled the strike, a grateful nation would have saluted-- which is exactly what the G.O.P. didn't want. ``This could have been a big victory for the President,'' says Dole, ``so, yes, I think there's some politics involved.'' Some? The fact, says Republican strategist Bill Kristol, is that ``solving the baseball strike would...
...then led back to his maximum-security cell. The capture of Yousef and the admissions of Siddig Ali will bring to an end the case of the Tower bombing. But it may not answer the nagging questions of just who were their sponsors and whether they intend to strike again...
...Spanish, talked ``nonstop, pausing only to eat and drink,'' according to Booth. He joked that he held an ``Olympic record'' in assassination plots against him, and chided Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev for being apologetic about communism. ``He appeared to be very well informed,'' says Attinger. ``He did not strike me as someone who was isolated...
Beijing's mood is strongly against concessions. Chinese officials strike the posture of victims, charging the U.S. with bullying a poor, struggling country. ``The belief is,'' says a government official, ``if we give in to the U.S. on this one, they will just ask for more.'' Shen Rengan, deputy director of the National Copyright Administration, complains that ``there are a bunch of people in the U.S. who are petrified by the prospect of China becoming strong . . . The U.S. can't play globocop in China...