Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some extent, Gingrich will try to rely on others, including such unlikely spokesmen as freshman J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, to make the sales pitches on talk shows and press conferences. Gingrich has even vowed to get more sleep. The self-benching has some Gingrich aides worried about the "message vacuum" that will be left in his wake, but that's a problem some rank-and-file Republicans are happy to endure. Says Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut: "We want him to pay more attention to his personal conduct...and don't give Democrats ammunition...
Ending a six-week vacuum at its top post, NATO named Javier Solana of Spain as the new secretary-general of the 16-nation alliance. The choice closes a difficult period for the Alliance that started when Willy Claes was forced to resign October 20 in connection with a government corruption scandal in his native Belgium. After the nominations of former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers and former Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen were blocked, Solana emerged as the favorite last month. TIME's Jane Walker reports that the choice of Solana, a former history professor and Spain...
...greeted her magnanimously, to say the least. Likewise, she was quite pleased to see her boyfriend. The couple couldn't keep off each other, despite his nasal sniffling. They were grabbing each other (and I'm not talking about hand-holding) and sucking each other's faces with vacuum power to rival the Dustbuster...
...this moment in time?'" says Michael. The power of the expectations was frightening in itself. "One person is supposed to heal 200 years of racial divide," says Powell's son. "You're supposed to moderate the Republican Party. You're supposed to create a foreign policy in the vacuum left by the cold war, solve Bosnia and lead us to a new era of prosperity and growth--all because you were a successful general and won a war." It is a charming but dangerous habit of voters to romanticize those they admire, even to the point of destroying them. Says...
...stop representing affirmative action as some quota filling policy created in a social vacuum and recognize the more fundamental statement it makes, that discrimination won't be tolerated in passive or active forms, and that only a conscientious and rigorous effort will be successful in curtailing such bias...