Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people waited to learn the results of the dress tests, Clinton's antagonists were reminding anyone who would listen that Starr was building his case in triplicate. "Even if the dress turns out to be nothing," says a private lawyer involved in the case, "there is so much other stuff--the messages, the gifts, the logs, the Secret Service stuff. They were alone an awful...
Clinton's inner circle takes some comfort in the fact that in contrast to typical grand-jury testimony, the President's lawyer will remain at his side rather than having to wait outside. "Kendall's job will be to sit there with a briefcase full of socks ready to stuff them into his mouth," jokes a Washington defense lawyer. Kendall might also remind the questioners that they are talking to the President of the U.S.--a protocol Clinton cannot enforce himself. But Kendall can do only so much. If he pulls on the President's sleeve one time too many...
...Challenger explosion, human space travel became downright dull. And with the first components of the NASA-led International Space Station set to launch within months, things seemed likely to stay that way. For a public that had grown to expect great things from NASA, this was pale stuff indeed. If anything could rekindle the magic of the vigorous NASA that was--instead of the flickering NASA that is--it might be the return of the man who first lit the agency's fires...
Although the use of performance enhancers is prohibited in most sports, it isn't just a question of cheating. The drugs can kill athletes--or make them very sick and shorten their career. Yet they keep taking the stuff, relying on so-called drug gurus to dose them in undetectable ways, and on ever more elaborate strategies to beat drug tests. One of the most devious: using a catheter to pump someone else's urine into their urethra just before a test...
...flubbed, however, as with a moldy one-liner asking, What's so great about Australia's shark-infested Great Barrier Reef? Predictably--but sadly--the loudest roars came when Seinfeld agreed to impersonate characters from his show, including Costanza, Kramer and Newman. A crowd pleaser, but not exactly groundbreaking stuff...