Word: saving
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...cited the cutoff of humanitarian assistance to a contra commander who had independently attacked a Sandinista outpost in violation of the Bipartisan Accord's ban on offensive operations. He mentioned the closing of the contras' political office in Miami (although in fact the CIA had shut the office to save money). These efforts, said Aronson -- and the return of the contras' political leadership to Managua to compete in the elections -- should be taken as signs of U.S. good faith...
...notion is afoot that the 1990s will be to saving what the '80s were to debt. Good. We need to save more...
...like who's going to die soon," Dr. Michael Bourland explains quietly as he moves on. Doctors here agree that they make the vast majority of their decisions within the first 15 seconds of seeing a patient. But some things simply demand more time. When a patient cannot be saved, Dr. Bourland says, "you have to go tell the family that their loved one died, and you know that you only have about 120 seconds to do it -- to get them to cry, to get them to yell and scream, to get them calm enough to give them...
...BIRD. IT'S A PLANE. IT'S MIGHTY MAXWELL. From all the huffing and puffing it took to knock down the door, you'd think the British publishing magnate was on a rescue mission. But Robert Maxwell was only trying to save his ego from the prospect of settling in less than spacious surroundings when he arrived early one recent morning at the London headquarters of his new weekly newspaper, the European. Staffers say he was dismayed not to find a king-size office for himself, and used a crowbar to break into the better proportioned lair of the managing...
...making Uncle Sam solvent. They had to put extra chairs around the mahogany table, which is designed for a load of 15 or so. Several of the White House's 93 servants hustled coffee and cookies. Something unreal here. Twenty-six men trying to figure out how to scrimp, save, cut, deny and maybe tax -- though the word was never spoken directly in an hour and 40 minutes. There were no specifics, just much hot air about good intentions. Thomas Jefferson looked skeptical from the west wall...