Word: sweeten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subsidy accord is crucial to the rescue operation, for private companies will not cut back unless their state-owned competitors are brought to heel. Europe's private steelmakers have warily agreed -- in principle only -- to a $1.1 billion shutdown scheme that the E.C. and member states plan to sweeten with $3.1 billion more for unemployment benefits and retraining. After last week's fiasco, officials pleaded for more flexibility from Rome. But either way, the lesson is clear: the longer the delay, the more painful the cure...
...game was the Crimson's last of 1992, and the victory helps slightly sweeten the sour taste of this season, boosting the Crimson to 4-10-2 overall...
...also floated a compromise in which Japan would get some of the islands, while Russia would keep the larger two of Kunashir and Iturup, where most Russians live. Tokyo has rejected the idea, and Yeltsin, fearful of risking the wrath of his Moscow rivals, has been unable to sweeten the deal further. Last week he canceled a trip to Tokyo rather than confront the issue...
...unpaid wages and benefits, the government has had to water down its tough fiscal policy and pump more money into circulation. Gaidar expects the amount of cash coming off government presses to increase fivefold by August, much of it in new 1,000- and 5,000-ruble notes. To sweeten the public mood on a visit to Siberia last month, Yeltsin ordered that a second plane accompany him loaded with 500 million rubles in back...
...Sonoma County, Calif., just west of -- you guessed it -- the Russian River. Gary Walters, chief usher at the White House, serving as First Wine Taster, made the selection. "The Soviets enjoy a little more sugar in their sparkling wines," says Walters. So the White House asked the winery to sweeten three cases of its Iron Horse 1987 Brut ($21). This was Iron Horse's third summit: it was served in Geneva in 1985, when Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev first met, and in 1987 in Washington...