Word: dealing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sure-fire winners for the G.O.P., uniting family-values conservatives with married suburban swing voters. Clinton, reading the same polls, wants to take the issue off the table by swapping the marriage-tax cut for a Medicare prescription-drug benefit. But the Republicans realize that if they take the deal, they will have nothing popular to promise the voters in November. Thus, so far, they have said no. But if the summer drags on and the public buys Al Gore's attacks on a do-nothing Congress, Clinton's offer might start looking like a bargain to the G.O.P...
While no-mask laws exist in at least 18 states, most were designed to deal with secret societies like the Ku Klux Klan, whose intimidation factor was heightened by members' concealed identities. Philadelphia's law, in language derived from hate-crime legislation, signals a new target: political activists, particularly self-described or suspected anarchists. Ironically, the people protected by the first laws--religious, racial, sexual and political minorities--are potentially the focus of the second wave...
...read on Putin were encouraged that the new Russian leader seems to be pragmatic and realistic. While the mercurial Boris Yeltsin "was a great story, he was not a great interlocutor," said one U.S. official. "The other leaders were happy to have a Russian leader they can deal with on a non-emotional basis." Putin also displayed a certain wry sense of irony. He had just come from North Korea, where he was greeted by an outpouring of 1 million citizens - not all there voluntarily, he allowed to Clinton. Putin told the President he was taken aback by the whole...
Quote: "We want people to see what carnage is being caused day in and day out... we hope it gets across that this is horrific, it is preventable, and that it's the responsibility of people in government to deal with.... The shoes are eloquent, it's chilling, it's tremendously sad to reflect upon what these people could have done, where they could have walked. The notion of people's shoes some how reflecting their lives and their path is very powerful, and there are way too many of them." -Ellen Freudenheim, cofounder and director of Silent March...
Quote: "We're really working to get local low-income people involved.... There is going to be a big youth contingent and a big labor contingent.... We're basically saying that we expect our elected officials to deal with basic human needs and not the corporate agenda." -organizer Lisa Fithian...