Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Well, sort of. I remember a few problems with a rubber ducky. But other than that, Bert and Ernie truly cared about each other. Bert never borrowed Ernie's clothes without asking. Ernie never blasted AC-DC's "Back in Black" while Bert was cramming for a final. These two muppets ought to be a model for all those who share rooms...
...thing, calling the cost to taxpayers $500 billion is sort of like calling your $150,000 mortgage a $500,000 problem because that's how much, with interest, it will cost to repay. But other factors may also eventually contain the vast damage that has unquestionably been done. (The damage is not that S&Ls have failed; we had too many S&Ls anyway. The damage is in half- built or largely vacant shopping centers and office towers no one wants or needs -- all those resources misdirected when, as always, there was so much that did need doing...
...Atlanta, which has been receiving about 1,000 calls a month from people who claim to be CFS victims, or from their relatives or doctors, has launched a $1 million "surveillance program" in which 350 physicians will study CFS patients in Reno, Atlanta, Grand Rapids and Wichita. "We're sort of starting from ground zero with this illness," says Walter Gunn of the CDC's viral diseases division...
...more than ten years Presidents have failed to sort it out. Jimmy Carter was driven from office by the hostage tragedy, and Ronald Reagan's futile attempt to swap arms for hostages blighted his presidency. Bush has steadily followed the recommendation of his own 1985 task force not to negotiate with terrorists and to cut out the hoopla, the yellow ribbons and prayer vigils, events that did raise the worth of the hostages...
Bush acknowledged the changes that have swept across Europe over the past year by calling for a NATO summit in early summer to explore the "future political mission of the alliance." He also paid tribute to the 35-member Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe for seeking to sort out the complications created by eased East-West tensions. But Bush made clear that as far as the U.S. is concerned, NATO should be retrofitted, not demolished and replaced with a new security structure...