Word: namings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were met with the same taunts that had greeted conventioneers at the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle the previous December. Some called them protesters (there were between 10,000 and 35,000 of them in D.C., depending on whose estimate was believed); others called them anarchists. Under either name, their gripe was globalization: the enrichment of multinational corporations at the expense of the environment and the poor. An affiliation of activist organizations coalescing as the Mobilization for Global Justice, the group showed up again later in the year to disrupt a monetary conference in Melbourne, Australia. Just as graphic...
...claimed their copies of the fourth installment in J.K. Rowling's magical series. As if to confirm that there is a huge gulf between ages 11 and 14, a major part of the the latter demographic fell under the spell of a vastly different celebrity--a real one, stage name Eminem. Even as the latest Harry novel climbed best-seller lists, Eminem's new CD, The Marshall Mathers LP (that being the artist's real name), was lording over the pop charts. The disc, loaded with violent and misogynistic imagery, proved irresistible to millions of teenage boys. While some puritanical...
Cheaper prescription drugs - everybody in Washington wanted them last year, and the Republicans had a plan. Pharmacists and drug wholesalers would be allowed to buy American brand-name medicines that had been exported to Canada and other countries where drug prices are controlled. The reimported drugs then could be sold more cheaply to American consumers...
...doesn't want more money? - but the size scares them. Republicans have always depended on tax cuts, but know that the size makes them vulnerable to getting out-empathized by Democrats. And Democrats know that Bill Clinton gave small, feel-good targeted tax cuts a very good name...
TRENT LOTT Dude, you're a majority leader in name only when the Senate is split 50-50. Get ready to play well with others...