Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush's numbers are much bolder than the facts warrant. His "200 programs" is based on a Bush-campaign laundry list of Gore ideas, including two new websites (each counts as a program). His "20,000 bureaucrats" is a partisan guess in an unreleased report by the Republican staff of the Senate Budget Committee. His biggest-spender-since-L.B.J. charge is more substantive. It is based on analysis by Carol Cox Wait of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan watchdog group. Wait compared the inflation-adjusted costs of various programs over the past 35 years...
...Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) sat at a table with Bernard Shaw and provided a comprehensive overview of the campaign issues. The format--the same that will be used for the presidential debate Tuesday--was a chance for the candidates to explain their tickets' positions without resorting to partisan attacks...
...notion that parents are wholly against standardized tests. The conclusion: Parents want standardized tests. They just don't want them to mean everything to children and their schools. According to one, a poll of 803 parents of public school children in grades K-12 released Thursday by the non-partisan, non-profit group Public Agenda, a full 82% agreed that states have been "careful and reasonable" in implementing new standards. Only 11 percent said their kids are taking too many standardized exams, 12 percent felt these tests unfairly difficult and 18 percent said schools are neglecting "real learning" in favor...
Like the decidedly partisan crowd at the IOP, the Park Plaza Democrats seemed very pleased with Gore's performance and the debate in general...
...temperature in the gymnasium housing the debate will be a carefully regulated 65 degrees. Not so cold as to require Bush to wear his Yale scarf (thereby infuriating the partisan Boston audience) but cool enough to waylay Gore's sweat glands' unfortunate tendency to overreact under pressure...