Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some residents said last night the city should be spending less, lowering commercial property taxes and saving surplus tax dollars in a fund balance--essentially the city's savings account, used for unforeseen circumstances and non-budgetary expenditures...
...Brien requested the city to divide the surplus, restricting $10 million for capital development and allotting $1.3 million for unforeseen costs not included in the original budget projection...
Emergency personnel deployed to sandbag the walls and line the dikes' river sides with plastic sheeting could only help relieve part of the crisis. In shipshape Dutch style, the evacuation proceeded in a remarkably orderly manner; the notices went out by post. Even so, a bit of unforeseen chaos ensued when some highways became paralyzed with traffic. Seemingly every car and truck that could move was pressed into carrying refugees burdened with cargo ranging from pigs to pianos. Saving livestock put unusual pressures on vehicles and roads. As the exodus progressed, the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, just north...
...gang. Surveying the voluntary departures of such Senate moderates as Minnesota's David Durenberger and Missouri's John Danforth as well as worrying about the loss of several others on Tuesday, a mournful Chafee said, "I'd like to say we're going to have some unforeseen support, but I must say, the middle is shrinking...
...Zhirinovsky: If his name were not Zhirinovsky, it could be Ivanov, Petrov or Sokolov. For a huge country like Russia, it's almost impossible not to have someone like Zhirinovsky emerge in a transitional period. I know Russia very well. Unless something totally unforeseen occurs, Zhirinovsky won't be able to control Russian society completely. How can Zhirinovsky dominate the thinking of Russia's intellectuals...