Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just about every group well organized enough to employ a lobbyist. And then there is the North American Free Trade Agreement, a legacy from Bush that Clinton has made his own and is pushing toward a showdown vote. Says Wayne Berman, a consultant on trade issues to a think tank and a major insurance company: "This has been a blockbuster summer for Washington lobbyists. The Clinton Administration made it a blockbuster summer by its frenetic activism on budget, taxes, trade and health care...
...almost everywhere now. Last week in Anaheim, California, a trade show for the Amusement and Music Operators Association displayed Sega's VirtuaRacer video game, Spectrum HoloByte's Star Base One and Visions of Reality's advanced Cybergate. Also last week, a U.S. Army show in Washington featured a VR tank simulator. This week the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan's SoHo district presents a VR exhibition with works by artist Jenny Holzer and composer Thomas Dolby...
...being a Weimar Republic with missiles. Images of violent communist-fascist mobs dedicated to strangling Russian democracy in its cradle no doubt helped galvanize international support for Yeltsin, a figure whose impulses are sometimes seen as suspect. The ambiguity of the crisis was reinforced by the televised spectacle of tank commanders loyal to Yeltsin shelling the Parliament Building...
...real muscle fans, the Cirque offers the Lorador brothers, yet another family devoted to getting into awkward positions. These two Portuguese gargantuans appear onstage in green leather tank tops and lift each other onto and off a wooden table. Although it's a little painful to watch them sweat and grunt through the act, the number does present an impressive showcase of original places to put the various parts of the human body...
...Charlotte Patterson, the University of Virginia psychologist who testified for Sharon Bottoms, concedes that any estimate of children of gay parents -- hers is "millions" -- is an educated guess. A considerably lower yet still sizable figure is implied in a 1983 study by the Family Research Institute, a conservative think tank that distributed questionnaires in Los Angeles, Washington, Denver, Louisville and Omaha. Of 877 respondents who were fathers, 22 (about 1 in 40) labeled themselves either bisexual or homosexual. Of 1,705 mothers, 25 (about 1 in 70) said the same. A majority of gay or bisexual parents...