Word: whacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obesity may be just as dangerous in the long run. The growing prevalence of both extremes suggests America is struggling with something akin to a national eating disorder. "The society is dysfunctional," says Robin Wes, founder of the Little Gym fitness centers for children. "We are eating out of whack...
Kasich, though, seemed undaunted. Let Clinton talk about killing one department, he said. He had plans to zero out four and eviscerate a fifth. (He declined to allow those departments to be named.) Kasich also figured he could whack more than one-fifth of the foreign-aid budget during the next five years without touching Israel's share, and cut another $26 billion from food stamps in the same period...
...Ladies, shall we whack the bush...
...inner-most matters of the heart. Most of his songs, like the sharp blues workout Cringemaker and the lithe My Waterloo, plumb tales of love gone sour. Even though Becker's melodies sometime seem stark and his voice is a mere bleat, his ear for catchy grooves gives Whack soulfulness and heft. Down in the Bottom, the CD's finest cut, chugs forward on a rhythm smart enough to make Smokey Robinson proud and maybe even cool enough to have made Charlie Parker feel like soloing. Don't ever expect the jazz-pop fusion of, say, Yanni...
...whack Saddam and be done with him? As we should have done last time, right? As even Richard Nixon advised two months after the Gulf War ended in 1991: "If I could find a way to get him out of there, even putting a contract out on him . . . I would be for it." Only Ross Perot is as publicly bold today, but the words "unfinished business" are on almost everyone's lips. From the soldier in the desert to the folks at home, most Americans (72% in the latest TIME/CNN poll) favor using military force to remove Saddam Hussein...