Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, this year was party central. It started two hours after the Clintons landed in Martha's Vineyard, with a 53rd birthday party for the President given by First Friends Ann and Vernon Jordan and featuring such Vineyard A-listers as the Washington Post's Katharine Graham and Miramax co-chief Harvey Weinstein. It continued last weekend in the Hamptons, where Hurricane Hillary and her husband swept in on Saturday to be feted by Robert De Niro and designer Vera Wang, among others...
...Reno's admission. Until then, she and the FBI had said only "cold" means had been used to disperse tear gas, and dismissed the notion that heat-producing devices had been deployed. Among those who made the denials was Danny Coulson, a senior official at the operations center in Washington at the time and founder of the FBI's hostage-rescue team (HRT). But shortly after once again denying the story to the Dallas paper, he heard that the Texas Rangers had taken a statement from an FBI employee saying that military rounds had indeed been deployed. Now retired, Coulson...
...that officials say they realized only last week was significant--HRT agents asked to use M651 military rounds because the heat they generate produces a vapor that provides greater penetrating power. A yet unidentified FBI official on the ground authorized the plan but did not report it to Washington. The two M651 rounds ricocheted off the bunker and bounced uselessly into a field...
...provides a sobering lesson. Arias was elected three times, and each time the army deposed him. Diplomats in Panama say Moscoso knows she must tread cautiously. She has vowed to keep politics out of the handover, entrusting the canal's operations to the autonomous Panama Canal Authority. Moscoso expects Washington to do the same, leaving rumbles of Chinese conspiracies to the thriller writers...
...office, Clinton has made clear that he plans to spend a lot of time in Arkansas building his presidential library. And if the First Lady does get elected to the Senate, of course, she?s going to have to set up a new home in Washington, D.C., too." All of which will leave Chappaqua?s peace relatively undisturbed...