Word: litmus
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...hardly even mentioned abortion. Since the decision, however, the issue has become a grotesque distraction on the political scene. With entrenched, almost unchanging opinions held by either side, abortion has become a wedge issue that no longer stimulates debate, only hostility. As a “morals” litmus test, abortion has convinced poor farmers from the Midwest that their political needs are fundamentally different from those of laid-off Detroit factory workers. Both groups need better schools for their children, legislation to ease the hardships imposed by a changing world economy and a strong, government-administered plan...
...they did so in circumstances that clearly differed from those of the mediocre comparisons. First, they never tried to use a big acquisition to ignite a breakthrough but attempted to accelerate greatness only after (usually years after) they had already achieved a breakthrough. Second, their best acquisitions met three litmus tests: 1) the acquisition must accentuate what the company can do better than any other company in the world; 2) the acquisition must enhance a powerful pre-existing economic engine; and 3) the acquisition must fit the driving passions of the company's people...
...family, but once I did, people really started to talk and to help,” Erlick said. “My investigation coincided with the 1996 peace accords, so it was really interesting to hear people talk. Everyone had something to say and it was really like a litmus test of public opinion...
...like McCain at all," says Stephen Moore of the Club for Growth. McCain in 2000 antagonized social conservatives when he likened religious broadcasters Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell to Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton. And he opposes a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage--a litmus test for many social conservatives. Friends of McCain say he's interested in running in 2008, but others close to him say he could bow out. "He lives in the moment," says a friend...
...game” is, and it is, organization is simply not enough. There are more conservatives than liberals in this country and we cannot win elections solely by energizing our base. Third, effectively becoming Republicans will not work either. The GOP has become adept at dividing our party, providing litmus-test votes that will “expose” us as progressives no matter what. Without the power of any branch of government, we have ceased to have the power to control the political agenda through Congress or the Presidency. Simply put, the answer is not to move right...