Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spark of Clinton-bashing can start the GOP engine, the party will have to provide its own motive poser. When your party is out of the White House, it's certainly harder to gain attention for proactive steps. Harder, and far more critical. For initiative is the key to destroy a reputation for stagnancy...
...fervent hope among most Japanese is that the emerging new order will destroy the powerful interest groups that have dominated the political and business arenas, eventually producing a genuine multiparty democracy of ideas rather than influences. But just how fresh are the new winds swirling around the Diet? Are Hata and company born-again politicians destined to shape the post-cold war era? Or are they rats fleeing a sinking ship? Hata and all his colleagues were members of the Takeshita faction of the L.D.P., which was close to the center of all the corruption scandals in recent years...
...defendants were charged immediately with conspiracy and attempting to damage and destroy buildings by use of explosives. If convicted they could be sentenced to 15 years in prison. U.S. Attorney White, however, said additional charges are likely to be filed. Said Fox: "These people are going to do many years of hard time...
...strikes, the United Nations' most-wanted man switched nimbly between martyrdom and angry defiance. Stretching his hands skyward, he led 1,000 clansmen in prayer, urging them to take comfort in Islam. "The U.N. and the U.S. are trying to impose colonial rule on us," he said. "God will destroy Washington as surely as they have destroyed Mogadishu...
...feared that they were losing the public relations battle and that their federal agricultural subsidies might be at risk. Or maybe they sincerely saw the need for compromise. Says Robert Buker Jr., a senior vice president at U.S. Sugar: "You can't shut down farming, but you can't destroy the environment either. They have to coexist." The growers have offered to put up $120 million toward the cost of pollution control in return for a new arrangement of filtering marshes that would take only 28,000 acres out of production (7,000 less than originally proposed) and supplement them...