Word: split
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started with the October Classic, which became in a few brief moments the October Nightmare. Candlestick Park shook, major league baseball shuddered and the World Series was split by tragedy. Debates raged about whether or not the Series should be finished, but for all intents and purposes--both competitively and in terms of fan interest--it was over the moment our television screens went blank...
Many thrift experts attribute the near paralysis to the way Congress -- at the Administration's insistence -- split responsibility for the rescue between two groups. The RTC's operations are supervised by William Seidman, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, an independent agency that polices the banking industry. But a separate panel called the RTC Oversight Board, which is chaired by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, decides RTC policy and controls its funding. Congress agreed to give the Treasury a role so that the Administration would have a major stake in the bailout, but dividing responsibility has prompted feuding between...
Piltch and Holleran agree that it might not have been a wise split- second decision, but they say the success ofthe dropshot was not lucky...
...pronouncing obsequies over the go-go greed of the '80s. But the connubial bust-up of the billionaire New Yorkers was the talk of the town. For that matter, of practically every town. Their story made the network newscasts and countless columns across the U.S., and once the split became a fait accompli, gossipists gleefully predicted that ramifications -- from a rowdy settlement battle to the wooing of new partners -- might drag on deliciously for, oh, a decade. The Rockies may tumble, Gibraltar may crumble, they're only made of clay, but gossip is heaven-sent and here to stay...
...responsibility for cleaning it up without any guarantee that they can do it. In the past the Soviet political situation was predictable; now it is getting less and less predictable. There are some important people in the party who, because of the country's chaos, talk about a possible split in the party. If it comes to that, the army will have to decide whom to pay its allegiance to, whom to support. Then it cannot entirely be ruled out that the army will become politically decisive in which side ends...