Word: whips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...benefits and job security have resulted in violent labor protests in Italy and massive demonstrations in Germany. A crippling walkout by Air France employees forced the government to back down on plans to cut 4,000 jobs. "We are on a dangerous road," warns Rudolf Dressler, the deputy party whip of Germany's opposition Social Democrats. Yet even welfare's staunchest defenders concede that fixes are needed. The system is going bankrupt. The huge sums Europeans pay to support it -- taxes average more than 40% of gross domestic product, vs. only 30% in Japan and the U.S. -- are not sufficient...
...barest minimum, the results last week will fail to help Clinton win congressional support not only for NAFTA but for his health-care reform bill as well. Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, a deputy Democratic whip in the House, fears that Clinton's health-care bill will become more vulnerable to attack -- wrongly, in her view -- as too expensive and too likely to promote a growth of government bureaucracy. On state and local levels at least, charges of excessive spending and too much bureaucracy have been proving lethal...
German officials were quick to point out that the experiment Hall and Stillman conducted -- cloning a human embryo -- would be considered a federal offense in Germany, punishable by up to five years in prison. "The Americans do not even have our scruples," complained Rudolf Dressler, deputy whip of the Social Democratic opposition in the Bundestag. "They simply go ahead with research, cost what it may." More than 25 countries have commissions that set policy on reproductive technology. In Britain, cloning human cells requires a license the governing body refuses to grant. Violators face up to 10 years in prison...
...comparison! At one end of the spectrum they are like the midget bluenose in Boccaccio 70 (1962) overwhelmed by Anita Ekberg as a sexual giantess -- it's the attack of the 50-ft. libido. At the other end they are like Guido in 8 1/2 cracking the whip in a vain attempt to tame his harem menagerie...
White House lobbyist Howard Paster, meanwhile, has drafted Cabinet officers into a "shadow whip" system aimed at turning the undecided around. On "even" weeks, agency chiefs meet with three undecided members; on "odd" weeks, they are deployed to at least one fence-sitter's congressional district to make speeches, attract local press and provide "cover" for the lawmaker to vote...