Word: co-opt
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Step one is to co-opt the bastions of middle-class urbanism. There are three Gaps within a 10-block radius of Astor Place in Greenwich Village, and there are more and more as you move uptown. No longer can the city claim to be hipper than the suburbs: everyone wears Gap, and every Gap is good...
...surface, Cuomo's thesis is unassailable, and two likely Democratic initiatives -- health-care legislation and a tax-rate cut for middle-class Americans -- will resonate among voters. But like any other incumbent President, Bush has an almost limitless ability to co-opt the agenda. The Democrats have already been forced to respond to Bush's vision of education reform, and his flip-flop on the issue of extending unemployment benefits proves his political suppleness...
...first Gorbachev and the reactionaries tried to co-opt each other. One of Gorbachev's aides, fluent in the earthy idiom of American politics, paraphrases a favorite line of Lyndon Johnson's: "Mikhail Sergeyevich felt it was better to have the camels inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. He wanted to keep them where he could see them and where they would have to take his orders. He also wanted to use them to put pressure on the Balts." That arrangement was fine with the reactionaries, since they had considerable latitude in how to interpret...
B.C.C.I.'s banking practice throughout the world was to co-opt government officials and influential businessmen with bribes, contributions and stakes in lucrative but dubious deals. Agents now sifting through B.C.C.I. records are learning that America was no exception...
...Democrats have stayed true to certain key issues such as abortion and the environment. But now many Republicans like Pete Wilson of California (Feinstein's opponent) and William F. Weld '66 support abortion rights. Furthermore, George Bush called himself the "environmental President" in a partially successful attempt to co-opt the traditionally Democratic environmental vote...