Word: sweeten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earlier, said he would introduce legislation by week's end to convert Aid to Families with Dependent Children and some child care and job training programs into block grants. TIME's Sam Allis says Dole's plan drew enthusiastic support today from all 30 GOP governors. "Clinton tried to sweeten the pot significantly," Allis says. "But where he sees a federal role, Republicans still see entitlements...
Marketing a hero requires some clever strategizing. Last week Air Force officials offered to put some of the Marines who rescued O'Grady on the David Letterman show along with him. "But we learned that the invitation to us for Letterman was only to sweeten the pot," a senior Marine officer said. "Because O'Grady already was slated to go on Leno, Letterman wouldn't take him unless the Pentagon could offer something extra, so the Air Force invited us to tag along to use as leverage to get Letterman to take him." The Marines refused to entertain the offer...
...second largest city without a pro football team. Davis, who had been unhappy with the decrepit condition of the Los Angeles Coliseum, become more concerned after the structure was damaged in the 1993 earthquake. In stepped Davis' former landlord, the Oakland Coliseum, with a $85 million stadium modernization to sweeten the pot. Fans can only hope that a return to the Bay Area may help to revive the flagging team's once fearsome ability...
...swiftly hired investment banker Lazard Freres to plot defense tactics and search for a white knight, such as AT&T or Hewlett-Packard, that would rescue Lotus. No savior had appeared by week's end, however, and Manzi seemed resigned to coming to terms with IBM if it would sweeten its offer. Wall Street watchers expected IBM to do just that to make the deal friendlier...
...take effect, U.N. forces will probably find themselves in armed camps, where they can protect themselves but not the civilian population outside. The Serbs show no sign of willingness to stop fighting and start talking. On the diplomatic track, the only effort under way is Washington's attempt to sweeten an offer Milosevic has rejected before. Even if he agrees to recognize Bosnia for now, he can always change his mind later and resume his quest for a Greater Serbia after the oil is flowing again...