Word: whippings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone offered Harvard University the chance to save millions of dollars on electricity, you'd think President Neil L. Rudenstine wouldn't be able to whip out his pen fast enough to cross the t and dot the i's of his presidential name, right...
...sickness as they try to grapple with new ideas like demokratizatsiya and privatizatsiya or attempt to figure out what makes brokery different from raketeery. (It is instructive that the Russian language has no words of its own for these borrowed concepts.) Still others shout for Yeltsin to crack the whip and get the old nags moving faster. But however bumpy the ride, if reform is really to take hold, every Russian must somehow arrive at an internal alteration of his or her mental outlook, a fresh landscape of the mind, to suit the new system. In the meantime, the troika...
Aladdin might not be of noble birth, but he has a noble spirit and a good heart. For example, he feeds two small beggar children his only portion of stolen bread and later protects these same tots from the cruel whip of one of the Princess Jasmine's "noble" suitors...
...lowering expectations, summit was a bad choice of words," says a rueful adviser. Though the forum is shaping up as a centerpiece of Clinton's transition, the record of such talkfests has often been meager. Gerald Ford's 1974 meeting of the minds produced mainly red-and-white WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons that proved to be little more than good grist for Johnny Carson monologues. "If it's just blah-blah-blah, it's a total waste of time," says Hewlett-Packard chairman John Young, a Clinton supporter. "But if it's eight or 10 people fine-tuning, framing...
...Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther whose radical history prompted his opponent, Jack Kemp conservative Jay Walker, to sneer, "He couldn't get a job at K Mart or McDonald's with his past record." Among the incumbents to survive this election year's vitriolic volleyball, sharp-tongued minority whip Newt Gingrich won a tough Georgia race against political neophyte Tony Center. Other household familiars heading back to the Hill include Speaker Tom Foley, who captured a healthy majority in his Washington State district, and House Armed Services Committee chair Les Aspin of Wisconsin. And who will be counted among...