Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Word Most Desperately Avoided Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called it a "meaningful downturn." Chief White House economist Michael Boskin dismissed it as a "lull." President Bush described it as a "slowdown." But by the end of the year, everyone saw it for what it was: a recession...
...Pentagon brought these questions to the fore last week by disclosing that it would shortly be asking Congress for a pile of new funds -- perhaps $20 billion -- to maintain the American forces confronting Iraq. Word promptly leaked that the total tab might be as high as $30 billion in fiscal 1991, which began on Oct. 1. That would be double the estimate of $15 billion made only two months...
With each new dietary study, eating seems to become less of a joyful experience and more of a risky business. The latest word follows that depressing pattern: researchers announced that the chances of developing colon cancer appear to rise almost in direct proportion to the amount of red meat and animal fat that people consume. That left fearful Americans grappling with the question: Is it wise to eat any red meat...
...unfairly. The main dealer of that racial card was William Bennett, an articulate critic of affirmative-action schemes and Bush's choice to be the new Republican Party chairman. But after a stiff internal debate, the Administration put that strategy on hold. Then Bennett astonished Washington last week with word that he would not become G.O.P. chief after all, ostensibly because of competing professional commitments. Compounding the confusion, the White House professed surprise when a mid-level Education Department official ruled that most college scholarships could no longer be reserved for minority students...
Bush's more moderate advisers, already queasy about Bennett's approach, argued inside the White House that the President's image would suffer. "This is a powder keg," said an official privately. "Somebody is going to read racism into every word you say on this subject. You don't want to do this." While the racial card appeals to some blue-collar and rural whites, it obviously offends many blacks. It also conflicts with the two-year effort by Bush and the departing G.O.P. chairman, Lee Atwater, to woo black voters. Further, the moderate faction agrees with political scientist Larry...