Word: fears
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...standards-setting organization in an area in which governments have abdicated control, the public interest demands that it become a representative and democratic body. ICANN has already been heavily criticized for adopting a dispute resolution policy that heavily favors the corporate owners of trademarks and weighs against individuals; others fear that ICANN could take steps to reduce the freedom of individuals to protect their privacy or to enforce a company-friendly vision of copyright law, and it would be much easier for special interests to capture a private body than a voter-approved one. Unfortunately, ICANN's undemocratic structure...
Bush's national-security point seems strained, since the reserve oil isn't being sold but "swapped"--the deal requires buyers to replenish the reserve. But that's not the only reason Gore and his advisers were delighted with Bush's response. Their fear had been that as temperatures dropped and the election approached, Bush would draw blood with his criticism of a Clinton-Gore "do-nothing" energy policy. Most people who heat their homes with oil live in New England, which is solidly for Gore, but a great many also live in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. Gore...
...federal government would awaken and slouch toward your hometown. "For him big government has never really been dead," said Bush. "It has simply been biding its time, waiting for its next chance.... If Gore gets elected, the era of big government being over is over. And so too, I fear, is our prosperity...
...Union when the President declared 'the era of big government over.' Apparently the message never took," Bush said Thursday, speaking at a container-manufacturing plant in Green Bay, Wis. "If the vice president gets elected, the era of big government being over, is over. And so too, I fear, could be our prosperity...
...Three bills stand out as examples of how this past Congress--and specifically the more partisan House of Representatives--has gone out of its way to hand out judicial plums to those who need them least, and to deny the protection of the courts to those with most to fear...