Word: scab
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...cleanly gotten away with it, but now all of a sudden she's paying the price. Twenty-four entertainment wire articles on Liz in the last four days (compared to two on Campaign 2000)! At the recent premiere for Bedazzled, she was pelted with flying debris and called a "scab" by angry picketers. To add insult to injury, the tabloids keep talking about her 60 year-old lover and comparing her to Anna Nicole Smith. And last week, the New York Post even gossiped about how she refused to get on a private jet because it was too small...
...After Camp David's collapse, some suggest Clinton should have followed the playbook of marriage counselors who advise couples never to go to bed without settling an argument. The summit had ripped the scab off the most sensitive subject dividing the two sides, and they had begun discussing compromises. "Once you put them on the table, you have to go full speed to reach an agreement," says Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East Forum at the Council on Foreign Relations. Instead, the administration took a breather for two months and tried in vain to enlist Arab leaders in pressuring...
...Again," says Crest just re-released a commercial she shot in the 1960s. There are also few new spots that feature celebrity appearances or star voice-overs. A rare exception is Tiger Woods' Buick commercial; the golf god shot it in Canada and, when told he was a scab, feigned ignorance of SAG rules...
...bonding - began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that mate was to be a scab, less than a man; such was the hard calculus of colonial life, and its traces are very much alive in Australia today...