Word: stalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...metabolic rate, thus sabotaging the effect of a lower caloric intake. I saw this when I was a consultant in a hospital weight-loss center that specialized in liquid diets. I was astonished at the number of people on 600-to-800-calorie diets whose weight loss seemed to stall after just a few weeks. Even worse, when you come off such a diet, the metabolism often remains at that lower level, making weight gain inevitable...
...Still, it's probably in everybody's interest to stall. Republicans won't look good if they actually succeed in defeating ratification, which would effectively scuttle the whole treaty and give the green light to India and Pakistan to continue their game of nuclear-test chicken. And it doesn't help the U.S. image overseas if its president is seen as writing checks his Congress won't cash...
...Hampshire, Berkeley and the rest are right; the intellectual environment is improved when one must contemplate why, in the auto-pilot of self-absorption that is washing and drying hands, we stop in our tracks at the sight of a woman exiting one stall and a man entering the next-why these two Harvard students, equal under the veritas, stand momentarily and wonder at each other. This truly is the meaning of liberal education...
...money down the Russian sinkhole. Clinton, of course, has been through it all before, from Foster and Travelgate to Whitewater and you-know-what, invoking executive privilege all the while. Even when the effort was doomed, when Monica hardly qualified as national security, Clinton used the privilege successfully to stall for time. Time is short now; if the Republicans have recovered their appetite for scandal, they?re unlikely to nail the White House?s elusive current occupant. And there's another thing to think about: the risk of alienating an electorate sated with scandal and irritated by endless investigations...
...very violence in which it turns out to have been an active participant. And, wouldn?t you know it, Indonesia?s generals insist they won?t accept Australians in the peacekeeping mission -- Australia has been tapped to lead any U.N.-authorized force. "Indonesia?s strategy will be to stall and confuse the issue as much as possible," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Annan will be pushing for an unconditional acceptance of a peacekeeping force within days...