Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five-year package of $140 billion in spending cuts (a reduction of 1.6% in federal spending), $60 billion of which would pay for tax cuts. Gingrich called the plan "very, very disappointing," and it was laughed out of town by his fellow Republicans and by editorial writers. To embarrass the President, Bob Dole brought the plan to the Senate floor, where in May it failed to get even a single Democratic vote...
...Congress and temperatures at the White House. "Thank God this is happening in January and not in October," said one White House official on Saturday, in a reference to the potential impact on the upcoming election. TIME's James Carney says "The Watkins travel memo may have been more embarrassing, but these records have legs. While Mrs. Clinton may not get hit with perjury, it could well be proved she worked more extensively on Madison than previously acknowledged." Carney says the Senate Whitewater Committee this week will question Richard Massey, the Rose attorney Hillary Clinton had identified as the lawyer...
...directed by Ulu Grosbard, is a two-hander about the edgy relationship of show-biz sibs. Georgia (Mare Winningham) sings pop; she's famous and sensible, a caring mom and sister. Sadie (Leigh) sings barroom rock and thinks the way to be Janis Joplin is to do drugs, embarrass herself onstage and lurch toward an early, ugly death. At the mike, in the van, at the airport, she goes self-destructively, picturesquely nuts...
...dentistry. In some cases he prescribed lithium tablets and ordered potentially dangerous injections of insulin "without clinical justification." One man, who had no amalgam fillings, was allegedly told that his lab reports showed he had "retention toxicity." Huggins denies any wrongdoing and claims that "dentistry is trying to embarrass me for getting this message...
...overwhelming victory that should embarrass other politicians who cavalierly throw around the word landslide, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein won a 99.96% approval rating from Iraqi voters and was sworn in for another seven-year term. Even in the once rebellious city of Karbala, not one of the 270,867 cast a vote against Saddam. Of course, there were no other candidates on the ballot, and soldiers were on hand to make sure voters did the right thing...