Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that any deal would have to pass both houses of Congress has Beijing doubting whether Mr. Clinton can deliver, even if they do manage to strike a deal. And, of course, that's a big "if." The two sides were reportedly close to agreement when Premier Zhu Rongji visited Washington in April, but the fallout from the Chinese nuclear espionage allegations prompted President Clinton to back out - a decision, according to the Times, he now deeply regrets...
Many workers consider the night shift a liberating experience. Home Depot's Parker can chauffeur his grandmother around the Los Angeles area and relax by his backyard pool during the day. Andrea Shalal-Esa, the night reporter for the Washington bureau of Reuters news agency, likes working from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. because it allows her to be a daytime mom to her two children. William Cockshoot, a Chicago commodities trader, finds he is better able to catch a price spread at night that would be snapped up faster by competitors during the day. The corporate investigators who work...
Ssshhh. Don't tell Congress, but nobody's taking this overthrowing Saddam thing very seriously. Iraqi oppositionists report for military training in the U.S. this week, following a weekend conference in New York sponsored by the State Department, but neither the opposition nor Washington has a serious strategy for overthrowing the Iraqi dictator. "This is pretty much a charade," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "President Clinton adopted the Iraq Liberation Act for domestic political reasons, as a way of showing the U.S. was doing something about Saddam without actually doing anything significant. People in the Pentagon believe that unless...
...Last December's Iraq Liberation Act commits Washington to supply $97 million in military aid to the Iraqi opposition. But that opposition is so small and fiercely divided along personality, ethnic and ideological lines - some key groups boycotted the New York meeting to avoid being tainted as U.S. pawns - as to make it something of a fiction in the real strategic equation. The military training that begins in Florida this week involves teaching four men, in civilian attire, such topics as the role of the military in a democracy. Not exactly menacing stuff, but it may reflect what's being...
...China sneaking up on our southern flank? Well, if you believe the likes of Pat Buchanan, Washington is leaving the door wide open to the People?s Liberation Army on Monday, when it gives Panama the keys to the last U.S. military bases in the Canal Zone. The handover of Howard Air Force Base and Fort Kirby clears the way for the transfer of the canal to Panama by the end of this year. But that has some U.S. hawks worried. Both Buchanan and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott have cited a Chinese threat in the isthmus, based...