Word: loud
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...everyone knows he will look first to Powell and Cheney on military matters. Already one top contender has withdrawn: with Powell's backing, Bush floated Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge for the spot, but Ridge withdrew about the same time that the G.O.P.'s right wing began to whisper out loud that the one-time Army artilleryman was soft on defense. Now leading the short list is retired Indiana Senator Dan Coats, a former Senate aide to Dan Quayle, whose selection would make the conservatives happier...
...Bush's father ran into recessionary trouble for two reasons - his people antagonized Greenspan by shouting too loud for interest-rate cuts, and he wouldn't point to Reagan as the source of some of his economic troubles. But George W., though the successor to a wildly popular Democratic economic legacy, has been lucky enough to see that legacy start fraying long before November. He can lower expectations without taking any of the blame, and with the mood as it is now he'll get credit for merely pulling out of the nascent tailspin, presumably with Greenspan's help...
...been easy. The agitation for television is constant. When Bush v. Gore reached the high court and the networks demanded entry with cameras, the chorus grew particularly loud. Rehnquist said no. His denial seems anachronistic, but it represents a deep understanding of the modern sensibility. Like Machiavelli, he knows how important an air of mystery is for maintaining authority. And TV's very essence is to demystify. Everything it touches becomes familiar and ordinary, ripe for irony and camp...
...strange moment on "Meet the Press": Off-camera in the studio, a lightbulb apparently exploded -a loud, sharp noise. Jesse Jackson thought it was a gunshot. For an instant he looked wildly to his right, eyes questioning...
...residents of said states might not have a problem with such an outcome, folks out in North Dakota and Montana might see things a bit differently. Citizens of sparsely populated areas (and the congresspersons who represent them) have grown fond of the electoral system, which affords them a disproportionately loud voice in the voting process. Wyoming, for example, casts the minimum three electoral votes; one for each senator and one for their sole representative - whereas New York is assigned 33 votes; one for each senator and one for each representative. The problem in that calculation lies in the fact that...