Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life. By signing welfare reform, he managed to win over moderates with his tough-love approach while convincing liberals they should stick with him as the best hope for fixing what they most hated in the bill he had just signed. In 1992 it would have been a wild, drunken Republican dream that by 1996 a 60-year-old entitlement like Aid to Families with Dependent Children would be demolished, the deficit reduced 60% and falling, a balanced budget pledged by 2002, the federal work force shrunk by 250,000 people--and that a Democratic President would have pushed...
...convoy of government vehicles made the short drive from Boris Yeltsin's luxurious sanatorium in the village of Barvikha to the heart center on the edge of Moscow. The patient was in a good mood, his spokesman reported later, and joked with the doctors. After two months of waiting, wild rumors and some nasty Kremlin infighting, the Russian President's heart-bypass operation--a procedure as crucial politically as it was medically--had finally become a reality. At 2 p.m., after seven hours in the operating room, during which Yeltsin's heart was stopped for more than 60 minutes...
Sitting in the Spartan vehicle, pressed against the blue cloth seats and listening to a strange combination of static and soft rock seems incongruous with the wild West image most have of crime-fighting...
After all, it took more than 85 minutes of field hockey yesterday for this game to be decided. Harvard took a 1-0 lead early in the second period, Northeastern tied it up and the overtimes were highlighted by wild, back-and-forth play...
...June Supreme Court decision, nearly half of Texas' districts will have new primaries on Nov. 5 and runoff elections--if no candidate receives a majority--in December. Thus the outcome of the battle for control of the U.S. House could have to wait a month, while Texans finish their wild political hoedown...