Word: dealing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...well." He is struggling to stay out of the limelight for his son's sake. Of course, he agrees with the idea that Al Gore is Bill Clinton's "boy," pampered and propped up and corrected by Clinton, but, O.K., politics is sometimes unfair, and that's the deal...
...While the GOP tested the elasticity of the electorate's imagination by recasting itself as champions of the best achievements of the New Deal and Great Society eras - the Republicans are now the party of education, saviors of Social Security and deep-pocketed patrons of Head Start - the Democrats, if the Lieberman announcement was anything to go by, are auditioning for the role of God-fearing party of family values...
...trying to hatch a deal similar to the one he negotiated with the U.S., Japan and South Korea that mothballed his nuclear weapons program in exchange for oil shipments and civilian nuclear reactors. If so, it might slow the U.S. rush to deploy missile defenses, at least for now. Why erect a shield if the country you're worried about isn't building the missiles? Launching North Korea's commercial satellites would be expensive, but not nearly as much as the $60 billion missile defenses could cost...
...controversy. It takes on urgency in view of the devastating fires and of Bill Clinton's roadless lands initiative, an all-but-done deal to ban further road-building on 43 million acres of national forest - Clinton's bid to be remembered as the greatest conservationist president since... Teddy Roosevelt...
...money from a very pragmatic Christian right, came to dinner with the Perot crowd in the first place. He roused enough rabble to stack the national committee with allies and the convention with delegates, and by Sunday the nomination will be his, though he's unlikely to close the deal without some fireworks from the Perot people. Lawsuits are promised, but eventually the FEC will probably just wearily write the check to Buchanan and hope to Pat's vengeful God that he polls under 5 percent in 2000. (With $12.6 million and a month or two, however...