Word: whacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some conservative Democrats are shifting into stronger opposition to what they call socialized medicine. Instead, they champion what they describe as relatively simple reforms to make health insurance more secure and less expensive. Clinton's supporters argue that halfway measures will throw the system even further out of whack...
...deficit accumulated because the University began to pay out more for its employee benefits packages than it was collecting for those from its 10 different faculties, officials have said. In addition, nationally rising costs have made the price of health care "out of whack" with what the University could reasonably expect to charge its employees...
...disciplined in disproportionate numbers -- what about the teacher who disciplines five or even six times as many black students? Shouldn't administrators be able to identify such egregious examples of racial bias? Moreover, Superintendent Brandt says, offending teachers -- meaning those instructors whose racial- discipline patterns are grossly out of whack with those of their colleagues -- will first be offered counseling to improve their management skills...
Long before Fiske is ready to make any legal moves, though, the Stephanopoulos-Ickes-Altman-Stephens story will make a mighty stick Republicans will use to whack the White House. And more questions will be asked during the (probably separate) Senate and House investigations that Senate Republican leader Bob Dole predicted might get under way around May 1. That the House will match the Senate in conducting such hearings became likely -- though not quite certain -- last week, in somewhat roundabout fashion. Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, abruptly canceled a hearing into RTC matters last Thursday at which...
SPORT: Not with a Whack but a Whimper...