Word: foisting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increase. A miracle! Alternatively, a classic of free-lunch liberalism. People complained about the complexity and opacity of the President's 1,342-page plan. They missed the point. The very purpose of that complexity and opacity was to obscure the way regulation and employer mandates would foist the higher costs on private business and individuals (in the form of higher insurance premiums). It took a while for that part of the story to get out. When it did, the plan died a swift death...
...completely unacceptable. But those responsible for producing popular culture need to take a harder and more thoughtful look at what they are saying with their movies, music and art, and learn to recognize when one of their products is so morally bankrupt that it would be irresponsible to foist it upon society. Seven is such a product, and it is by no means the only...
Harvard is a terrible place to breed football coaches. Sure, there's that whole idea about "being the best" that Harvard likes to foist on its students and faculty, but when it comes to sports the university likes to stress the personal growth of the individual over winning. Wins and losses aren't as important as building the complete student-athlete. That's "the Harvard experience...
...twist: the two World Wars had finished off the imperial ventures of the Hohenzollerns, Habsburgs, Ottomans, Romanovs, Nazis and Japanese -- and accelerated the withdrawal of the British, French and Dutch as well. However, those two conflagrations had also created the conditions in which the Soviet Union was able to foist on the world yet another empire...
...other tagwearers around us were training to become NuSkin distributors, an elite with the power to foist goods upon unsuspecting multitudes...