Word: co-opt
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...potential enemies on the domestic front, including the irascible Republican Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who toasted her last week as a "tough and courageous lady." In fact, such bipartisan appeal was a major factor in the selection of Albright and her teammates. Clinton must co-opt a skeptical Congress if he is ever to develop the national consensus essential to almost any foreign venture or protect the policymaking bureaucracy from the budget hawks. Cohen is highly regarded on both sides of the aisle as a bridge builder who can meld judicious compromises on contentious issues...
Indeed, this year's election has seemed less like a contest of two candidates presenting their competing viewpoints than a battle between Clinton and Dole to co-opt the opposing party's platform into...
...President's baby-boomer propensity for self-indulgence. On a political level, Gephardt also resents Clinton for his "triangulation" strategy of distancing himself from congressional Democrats. To this day, Hill Democrats argue that Clinton owes his political resurrection not to adviser Dick Morris, who urged the President to co-opt G.O.P. issues, but to Gephardt, who persuaded the White House to attack the Republicans for slashing Medicare...
Maybe Chanel started it with its burnt-burgundy Vamp nail polish. Maybe the cosmetics industry finally found a way to co-opt grunge. Whichever, names for cosmetic colors are getting a lot less glamorous. Poppy offers a lipstick called Vanity. Hard Candy has one called Porno and another called Navel. But for names that really scream grotesque, it's tough to beat Urban Decay, whose new fall colors for lips, eyes and nails include Rust, Gash, Gangrene, Vapor and Toxin. Surprisingly, no less a store than Nordstrom's has bought the line, which is selling best in its Mall...
...disturbing to have reached a point where officials feel that they have to play follow-the-leader with Hollywood (not renowned as a think tank for sound public policy). Leaders should be spending more time trying to set an agenda of national concerns and less trying to co-opt the currents of a cultural mainstream that is swinging away from them. The fact that media mainstream forces like Hollywood blockbuster action films--mere entertainment--have maneuvered so successfully in the public eye that they now must be addressed as a campaign issue is disturbing. Their content is hardly worthy...