Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Dole has been trapped in a vacuum of his own making--no policies, no message--Clinton has plugged away with two new family-values proposals a week. They are popular, conservative, small-bore measures designed to show his concern over truancy, deadbeat dads, burning churches and whatever else is polling well. "You guys [in the press] don't always pay much attention," says a Clinton adviser, "but people eat this stuff...
Then there are the new "aerospike" engines. Nozzles on the current shuttle engines have limited adaptability to ambient pressure; they work well in a vacuum but labor in the earth's atmosphere. The aerospikes will match thrust to need. Like a car with fuel injection, they should get better mileage...
...aftermath of the election, conference organizers said, a vacuum has arisen in the elaborate preparations of the peace process--a vacuum this conference is intended to fill...
...result, I have seen a few things I never had before--including the inside of an air conditioner and the inside of a toilet. Just today, I got the idea of finally vacuuming the living room rug. But once I pulled out the vacuum and plugged it in, I was stumped about how to turn...
None of this is likely to end anytime soon. Professional peacemakers such as the U.N.'s put scant effort into ratcheting down the war; it is perceived as too complicated, too Islamic, too out of the way. The vacuum allows regional powers--Pakistan, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and India--to back one side or another, prolonging the conflict as they seek to extend their influence. Such meddling infuriates Afghans, but some reserve a special anger for America. They believe the U.S. has turned its back on the country it once supported, indifferent to its suffering. "Those friends who armed...