Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nixon and Kissinger made no secret of their dislike of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Through economic pressure and CIA activities, this government was overthrown, and the right-wing dictator, Pinochet, was brought to power. Thousands of students, intellectuals, union organizers and, in general, people who tried to help the poor were arrested, tortured and killed. Watergate, which receives nearly all the publicity, is really a small incident in comparison to these events...
...however, standing close enough to them when he found her on the wing of the stage to hear a few phrases here and there...
...with a vested interest in the current system. "You can't look at [Forbes'] candidacy in conventional terms," said Don Sipple, a Dole media adviser. "You have to look at it in more symbolic terms. A big part of his support is anti-Washington, antipolitical, sort of the anarchic wing of the Republican Party. Their support for Forbes is not about him. It's about discontent and anger and frustration with the rest of the field and Washington...
These visions of mine are, I know, anathema to the Bigger Pie wing of the Republican Party. The piemeisters, whether they talk about trickle down or supply side or a flat tax that doesn't apply to interest income or a repeal of the capital-gains tax, are believers in one simple proposition: the less rich people pay in taxes, the better off the rest...
...British peace-negotiating assembly before resuming all-party negotiations, Irish Prime Minister John Bruton believes waiting for elections will inflame Irish fustrations with the already slow pace of the talks. Time's Barry Hillenbrand says the bomb is the manifestation of a disagreement between Sinn Fein, the legal political wing of the IRA that initiated negotiations and the militant IRA Army Council. "The Army Council has delivered a message of frustration with the slow peace talks. They have decided to go back to war. No one really knows, however, what the IRA intends to do in the future...