Word: felling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...seemed dead in the water. She had been laid up half the summer recovering from a hysterectomy. Her San Francisco-based political consultant had ditched her, complaining that she lacked sufficient "fire in the belly" to respond to the opposition's scoffing attacks about her low profile. As she fell twelve points behind in the polls, many politicians guessed she might have to drop out of the race...
Growing up, Bela fell in love with the Beatles, fooled around with guitar and took up the banjo at 14, after seeing the movie Deliverance, with its Dueling Banjos bluegrass theme. "The sound of the banjo just killed me," he says. "It's like hearing mercury...
...keep him engaged in dialogue. In November 1988 the U.S. used quiet diplomacy to extract from Saddam a promise that he would not be first, in future, to use chemical weapons. Despite his confrontational tone in Baghdad last week, Saddam signed on to a watered-down communique that fell short of his call for oil sanctions against the U.S. That was only a minor victory for the region's moderates, who have much to fear from Saddam's breed of radicalism. But it provided some encouragement that as long as they can keep Saddam talking, there is hope of persuading...
...negotiations between Durenberger and the committee appear to be taking place, although the Senator's aides say, "No options have been foreclosed." Congressional experts believe any "plea bargain" Durenberger might strike would have to include his resignation. "What Durenberger did was all calculated, not something he fell into," says one political consultant. "How could the Senate sweep it under the rug?" The rug is already bulging with scandals: ethics investigations are proceeding against Senators Alan Cranston, John McCain, Dennis DeConcini, Donald Riegle and John Glenn for their ties to savings and loan operator Charles Keating; and New York Senator Alfonse...
...billion, of which $123 billion is British, double the amount for second-place Japan. At the start of the '80s, Britain's stake in the U.S. was under $10 billion. Of some 20 FORTUNE 500 companies taken over by foreigners in the past five years, more than half fell to British buyers...