Word: vexing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough are the roasted nut and pseudo-pizza stands that greet commuters upon departure from the train. Even worse, though, is the blinding array of CVS marquis, Gap displays and trendy nouveau cuisine eateries that vex disillusioned Harvard students yearning for the long-lost quaintness of charismatic local city neighborhoods. Today, convention is readily acquired by the swipe of a credit card, and one need not venture outside the 1-mile radius of Store 24 to take a virtual walk through similarly commercialized Beantown. The mom & pop establishments with faded awnings, friendly hellos and century-old traditions are rapidly disappearing...
...more serious issue about whether the Senate will begin an impeachment trial continues to vex the White House...
...opposition to the congressional Republicans' five-years-and-you're-out philosophy. His fellow Governors knew better. Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson reports that Engler, a notoriously hard bargainer, played "bad cop" on the Republicans' three-man negotiating team. He helped box the Democratic Governors into an agreement that could vex the Clintonites: it maintains the entitlement-trashing that appalls the Administration's liberal wing, but its Governors' seal of approval would make it excruciating for the President to veto any such legislation. It is the kind of product that could get its manufacturer tagged as a national figure...
...models. Generally, social welfare is seen as an area in which America would do well to imitate the European example, The Clinton-supported family leave act is but one example of a social program patterned after a European precedent. Europe, it is widely believed, has solved problems that still vex American society...
Czechoslovakia's brief ethnic feud also illustrated the hair-trigger sensitivities that vex Eastern Europe. Slovaks, who account for a third of the nation's 15 million people, have long nursed a sense of victimization. Wary of Czech domination, Slovak leaders hinted at secession unless Prague agreed to extensive decentralization of core institutions, from the national bank to oil pipelines to management of minority affairs...