Word: lines
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...McCain repeatedly asserted the authority of his military and political experience in a series of calculated put-downs of Governor Bush, challenging him to provide specifics on vague promises of tax cuts and military spending reduction. Both men affirmed anti-abortion positions, but refused to be goaded into hard-line positions by the social conservatives. Bush was, however, stung by Forbes' unflattering characterization of his achievements as Texas governor...
...federal regulators. Rarely has this been more drastic than with Labor's handling of home-office safety. First Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Agency (OSHA) sent a "letter of interpretation" to a California firm in November, making the firm responsible for keeping its employees' home offices in line with federal office safety standards. These letters traditionally constitute agency policy...
...site is being promoted mostly through press releases and on-line links and has been named a Hot Site on the USA Today Web site...
...ability to alter what we see becomes more important when the line blurs between news organizations and their business-oriented owners. Corporate-media interactions always raise questions of bias, such as when Time magazine (owned by Time Warner) hyped the movie "Twister" and other, similarly mediocre Warner Brothers movies on its front cover. We expect that when a character in a daytime soap opera uses a well-known product, it might be a product that is advertised on the network...
...educated white men. The two had essentially identical voting records in their time in the Senate together, and their positions on the vast majority of issues are indistinguishable. Both support abortion rights; both are environmentalists; both support free trade. Both support campaign finance reform and gun control. And, in line with the post-Bill Clinton orthodoxy of the "new" Democratic Party, both support the death penalty and oppose gay marriage...