Word: whips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backlash has also thrown the more respectable opponents of Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank on the defensive. Rabin's widow Leah has repeatedly accused Likud, the chief opposition party, and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, of tolerating, if not helping to whip up, the climate of violence that felled her husband. Netanyahu, in a telephone interview with TIME, responded with uncharacteristic mildness. "If the left can draw a distinction between moderate and extreme Palestinians," he said, "at least they could do the same for our own people...
...Whip me!" he hissed...
...Would you mind telling her?" she asked, adding, "I'm going to whip you through this women's studies stuff...
...JUDGE. Aside from Judge Lance Ito's lax hand on the whip, which allowed the lawyers to grill witnesses endlessly and argue and reargue points of law, Professor Barbara Babcock of Stanford Law School observes that Judge Ito was often late to arrive and took time to usher celebrities into his chambers. "If you sequester a jury, there should be pressure on everyone to go as fast as you can," she says. "I've never seen a sequestered jury treated this way. I think the message they got was that neither their time nor they were important." Motions should...
They used to be small businessmen, griping in obscurity about government red tape. But now they're big-time Congressmen whose real-life horror stories are making a big impression on Capitol Hill. House majority whip Tom DeLay, a former exterminator, says the Environmental Protection Agency has allowed fire ants to trample the South. Georgia dentist Charles Norwood says federal regulators have made it hard for children to believe in the tooth fairy. And Cass Ballenger, a North Carolina plastic-packaging manufacturer, says labyrinthine EPA rules have cost his business more than $1 million. Now, in the name of regulatory...