Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usually when politicians bicker, they're at least stretching the truth if not outright lying. But in this little-Atlantic tiff, each was absolutely right...
...however, the children of the sexual revolution are beginning to grapple with how to teach their own children about sex. Faced with evidence that their kids are suffering while they bicker, parents and educators are seeking some common ground about what works and what doesn't. It is becoming possible to discuss the need for responsibility and commitment without being cast as a religious fanatic and to accept the need for safe-sex instruction without being considered an amoral pragmatist...
WOMEN HAVE INQUIRED ABOUT the possibility of having his baby. Scientists the world over plead for a chance to examine him. Museums compete for bits of his clothing and tools. Nations and provinces bicker over who has custody rights, while anthropologists struggle to discern how he lived and what other ancient secrets he is destined to reveal...
...White House and Little Rock also continued to bicker over the terms of possible debates, with the result being that both sides now privately acknowledge that only a single debate is likely before the election. Bush refused to discuss a compromise on debate format because he believes that just by appearing on the same stage with Clinton he will narrow the "stature gap" he enjoys over the man he calls "the Governor of a small Southern state." As a Bush aide put it, "Win or draw, the first debate will allow Clinton to narrow the stature...
Students must "bicker" to join eating clubs, but all of the clubs now admit women after a bitter legal struggle...