Word: namings
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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BUSH: That I'm not sensitive to racial issues. You know, it may be because I'm from Texas. It may be because I've got Republican by my name. Certainly, it isn't what I think...
...brother said to Lee Atwater, here's the definition of loyalty: if there's a hand grenade rolling around the Old Man, we want you diving on it first. Karl is that way. You can name 20 others, and they'd be the ones rolling the grenade. You heard them all in the course of the campaign--when times were rough, they were all the anonymous second-guessers saying, "Bush needs to have more Washington experience." That's a code word for "Bush needs to have me, so I can tell some foreign government they need to double my fees...
Bush wants to name a Democrat to some post, perhaps the Department of Energy, if he can just find one who'll go along. The job of whittling down the options has fallen to Cheney, who has spent the past few weeks since his heart attack gathering resumes and making tentative feelers and offers so Bush is never turned down. "Cheney doesn't decide," explained an aide, "but he does tee up the choices." Giving Cheney the job of sifting through the names may turn out to be a nifty bit of Bush judo: if the party's base doesn...
...year 2000 was also a good one for spin in the private sector, where it goes by the name of marketing. For intellectual-integrity buffs, marketing has an advantage over political spin: you can often design the product around the sales message. In other words, reality can come to you. You don't face the Hobson's choice of either following reality wherever it leads (which can put you off-message) or plunging into disingenuousness. But in the age of spin, who is dainty enough to care about the connection between an advertisement and the product it is intended...
...Nino Milagro, "the miracle child." He was plucked from the waters, like Moses from the bulrushes, by a fisherman. He became known to us by one name. To have any greater religious overtones, the tale would have to involve visits from the Virgin Mary--which some said it did. And the standoff over what to do with Elian (now 7) after the November 1999 Cuban-refugee-boat sinking that killed his mother, was as intractable as a religious schism. To his father Juan Miguel, in Cuba, the Miami relatives who took Elian in were kidnappers, buying the boy's love...