Word: centralize
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...Bush knows a lot of others have been wondering the same thing. In photo ops the only part of the Crawford ranch the world can see makes it look like one of those dry, generic planets that are always beamed down to on Star Trek. This place in central Texas, just 23 miles southwest of Waco, is Bush's sanctuary. Nearly every weekend of the campaign he came here; he prepared for debates in its two-room cottage, and he has spent the major part of the postelection period out in its dusty acres, away from the fishbowl...
...every year produces a classic like President Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." The lie most discussed in 2000 was Al Gore's alleged claim that he invented the Internet, which is an exaggeration of what he really said and is hardly a central issue anyway...
Lawyers are, in a way, the fathers of spin. They call it "vigorous representation of my client." The central distinction of spin--between knowingly lying and ignorantly or disingenuously misleading--is a positive ethical obligation of the legal profession. Lawyers are forbidden to do the former and required to do the latter as best they can. This includes what's known as "arguing in the alternative"--the practice, infuriating to lay people, of saying, "My client never stole the money, Your Honor, and anyway, he gave it all to charity...
...offered by globalization to move money and men around the world, and also - more ominously - to go in search of the weapons of mass destruction that would dramatically increase their ability to hurt their foes. Bin Laden has managed to operate precisely by taking advantage of the limits of central authority in such failed or failing states as Sudan, Yemen and Afghanistan. The United Nations Security Council this week, under U.S. urging, imposed new sanctions against Afghanistan in order to press them to surrender Bin Laden. But sanctions were a more effective weapon in an earlier era, when terrorist networks...
...years ago. Many AMT victims earn well under $100,000 a year. By 2010, 10% of filers will pay the AMT, a complicated tax that effectively takes back deductions for Everyman expenses like state property and income levies and medical care as well as personal exemptions for children. The central issue is that the trigger point for the AMT doesn't rise with the cost of living. Look for that trigger to be indexed to inflation. Full repeal probably isn't in the cards...