Word: maelstrom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kinder, gentler" nation, improved education, a war on drugs, the greatest military buildup in peacetime history and -- most fraudulent of all -- a balanced budget. Bush's OMB director, Richard Darman, who played a crucial role in negotiating the budget compromise that was at the center of last week's maelstrom, was himself guilty of preparing a budget that was a monument to Reaganite wishful thinking. Bush's nationally televised paean to the homely virtues of a balanced checkbook might have carried a lot more weight in both the country and in Congress had he not won office two years...
...multiracial future for his country, with full respect for the rights of the white minority. He promised potential investors that their ventures would be welcome in a South Africa in which everyone, regardless of race, had the vote. Nonetheless, some of his remarks inevitably drew him into the maelstrom of U.S. politics...